Monthly Archives: April 2016

Thank you to Mathematician Sharon Lubkin, who called my attention to the Google doodle above, which was posted in honor of what would be Hertha Marks Ayrton’s 162nd birthday.   This led me to a fun jaunt through her Wikipedia page … Continue reading →

Thanks to librarian Allegra Swift, who passed along this tweet pointing to this article about Thelma Prince, who contributed to the development of the polio vaccine.    

Thank you to Kathy Kobayashi, who forwarded this LA Times article featuring a new book about the women who worked as programmers at JPL by Nathalia Holt, “Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to … Continue reading →