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A review by ksrh8r69
Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
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"So now she was the queen of physics - the first queen of physics "
Here is a brief history of all the women who made significant contributions in physics before Blue Mars was published in 1996 that KSR conveniently forgot when dubbing one of his SIDE characters the 'first queen of physics';
18th Century:
Laura Bassi - first female member of the Bologna Academy of Sciences, first woman appointed as chair of physics at a university.
Emilie de Chatelet - first woman to have a paper published in the Paris Academy, worked on metaphysical basis for Newtonian physics.
19th Century:
Sophie Germain - worked in elasticity theory, first woman to win a prize from the Paris Academy of Sciences.
Isabelle Stone - first woman to receive a PhD in physics in the United States
Edith Anne Stoney - first woman to become a medical physicist, lecturer at the London School of Medicine for Women, pioneer in the used of x-ray machines in WWI.
20th Century:
Marie Curie - first woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Physics for her work in radioactivity, also the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her discovery of radium and polonium.
Hertha Ayrton - first woman to win the Hughes Medal for her work in electric arcs.
Emmy Noether - creator of Noether's Theorem which explains the connection between symmetry and conservation laws.
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin - established that Hydrogen is the most common element in the universe.
Lucy Mensing - first to apply quantum mechanics to molecular systems.
Inge Lehmann - discovered that Earth has a solid inner core distinct from the molten outer core.
Marguerite Perey - discovered francium, first female member of Academie des Sciences
Ruby Payne-Scott - first female radio astronomer
Grace Brewster Hopper - one of the first programmers on the Harvard Mark I, came up with the term 'debugging'.
Frances Spence, Ruth Teitelbaum, Marlyn Meltzer, Betty Holberton, Jean Bartik and Kathleen Antonelli - programmed the electronic general-purpose computer.
Rosemary Brown-Fowler - discovered the k-meson
Rosalind Franklin - played a crucial role in using x-ray diffraction to discover the structure of DNA.
Chien-Shiung Wu - creator of the Wu experiment, won the Wolf Prize in Physics.
Maria Goeppert Mayer - first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physics for her work in nuclear shell structure (second woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physics)
Jocelyn Bell Burnell - discovered the first radio pulsars
Mina Rees - first woman president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Willie Hobbs Moore - first African-American woman to receive a PhD in physics.
Sandra Faber - first woman to join the Lick Observatory.
Anna Coble - first Aferican-American woman to receive a PhD in biophysics.
Deborah Ajakaiye- first woman in any West African country to be appointed a full professor of physics.
Mildred Dresselhaus - first woman Institute Professor at MIT
Reva Williams - works out the Penrose Process for rotating black holes
Here is a brief history of all the women who made significant contributions in physics before Blue Mars was published in 1996 that KSR conveniently forgot when dubbing one of his SIDE characters the 'first queen of physics';
18th Century:
Laura Bassi - first female member of the Bologna Academy of Sciences, first woman appointed as chair of physics at a university.
Emilie de Chatelet - first woman to have a paper published in the Paris Academy, worked on metaphysical basis for Newtonian physics.
19th Century:
Sophie Germain - worked in elasticity theory, first woman to win a prize from the Paris Academy of Sciences.
Isabelle Stone - first woman to receive a PhD in physics in the United States
Edith Anne Stoney - first woman to become a medical physicist, lecturer at the London School of Medicine for Women, pioneer in the used of x-ray machines in WWI.
20th Century:
Marie Curie - first woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Physics for her work in radioactivity, also the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her discovery of radium and polonium.
Hertha Ayrton - first woman to win the Hughes Medal for her work in electric arcs.
Emmy Noether - creator of Noether's Theorem which explains the connection between symmetry and conservation laws.
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin - established that Hydrogen is the most common element in the universe.
Lucy Mensing - first to apply quantum mechanics to molecular systems.
Inge Lehmann - discovered that Earth has a solid inner core distinct from the molten outer core.
Marguerite Perey - discovered francium, first female member of Academie des Sciences
Ruby Payne-Scott - first female radio astronomer
Grace Brewster Hopper - one of the first programmers on the Harvard Mark I, came up with the term 'debugging'.
Frances Spence, Ruth Teitelbaum, Marlyn Meltzer, Betty Holberton, Jean Bartik and Kathleen Antonelli - programmed the electronic general-purpose computer.
Rosemary Brown-Fowler - discovered the k-meson
Rosalind Franklin - played a crucial role in using x-ray diffraction to discover the structure of DNA.
Chien-Shiung Wu - creator of the Wu experiment, won the Wolf Prize in Physics.
Maria Goeppert Mayer - first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physics for her work in nuclear shell structure (second woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physics)
Jocelyn Bell Burnell - discovered the first radio pulsars
Mina Rees - first woman president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Willie Hobbs Moore - first African-American woman to receive a PhD in physics.
Sandra Faber - first woman to join the Lick Observatory.
Anna Coble - first Aferican-American woman to receive a PhD in biophysics.
Deborah Ajakaiye- first woman in any West African country to be appointed a full professor of physics.
Mildred Dresselhaus - first woman Institute Professor at MIT
Reva Williams - works out the Penrose Process for rotating black holes