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Neil’s Favorite Female Scientists – Fan Questions | StarTalk


definitely Hypatia who we don’t have
full information on her but she was
around at the time that the Library of
Alexandria was sacked this library was
the repository of all the knowledge of
the Western world dating from ancient
Greece on forward she was there in
defense of this knowledge she herself
was learning in ways that women of the
time were not encouraged or not allowed
and so for me she’s quite a hero and the
and I know she’s on everybody’s list but
I gotta put her in there Marie Curie
come on now with two Nobel Prizes most
people don’t even have one Nobel Prize
he’s got do and so you read about her
the enthusiasm for her work and the
intensity with which she committed
herself to discovery in physics and in
chemistry it’s a level of intensity that
any scientist should aspire to and she
did it and she did it boldly
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