As cool as that story is, it’s not correct. Taken from https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/article/71/1/46/819012/Mary-Somerville-s-vision-of-scienceThe-Scottish
“Mary Somerville’s iconic status is often summed up by stating that William Whewell, in his review of her book On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences, hailed her as the first “scientist.” But almost exactly the opposite was the case. Nowhere did Whewell or anyone else in her lifetime ever call Somerville a scientist, nor is it a word, so far as we know, that she ever used herself. By our current understanding of the term, Somerville can certainly be called a scientist, but for her contemporaries she belonged to a higher and more profound category entirely.”
Nice, a Lemmy post of a picture of a Tumblr post citing reddit for a completely bogus fact. We truly are using all of our brains these days.
It seems to be kinda true but not really? The term was coined by someone else to describe her apparently?
“I will now be regressing the equality she attempted to create in an attempt to be petty.”
I need to take a psychology class because I just can’t fucking understand people.
Just as Lemmy’s full of right-wing authoritarians preaching communism, it’s also full of sexist assholes preaching feminism. I hope that one day the Fediverse will be mainstream enough that we’ll get enough reasonable people to downvote this trash into oblivion, but we don’t seem to be getting any closer to that.
Behind many famous scientists there was a great woman whose work earned them the Nobel Prize.
Scientress*
Scientrix?
I think that’s the ones that try to trick you out of your soul via the power of science.
Science-fighter
this post is impressive in how it misses all the points
She has become the thing she hates.
Not even in the movie Oppenheimer they rise much the influence of Lisa Meitner
Other scientist woman got famous in other context, like Mayim Bialik
One of her publications https://www.proquest.com/docview/304879069
