{"id":23883,"date":"2021-03-28T11:40:35","date_gmt":"2021-03-28T11:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=23883"},"modified":"2021-03-28T11:40:35","modified_gmt":"2021-03-28T11:40:35","slug":"women-discoverers-20-top-women-in-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2021\/03\/28\/women-discoverers-20-top-women-in-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Women Discoverers: 20 Top Women in Science"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBy Marie Moinard<\/strong> & Christelle Pecout<\/strong>, translated by Montana Kane<\/strong> (NBM)
\nISBN: 978-1-68112-270-0 (Album HB) eISBN: 978-1-68112-271-7<\/p>\n

Comics and graphic novels have an inconceivable power to deliver information in readily accessible form, and – like all the best teachers – can do so in ways that are fascinating, fun and therefore unforgettable. Here’s a fresh entrant in a wave of historical and biographical visual celebrations seeking to redress centuries of gender injustice while providing true life role models for the coming generations.<\/p>\n

Crafted by writer, editor and journalist Marie Moinard (En chemin elle recontre<\/em><\/strong>, La petite vieille du Vendredi<\/em><\/strong>) & Christelle P\u00c3\u00a9cout (Lune d’Ombre<\/em><\/strong>, Hypathie<\/em><\/strong>, Histoires et l\u00c3\u00a9gendes normandes<\/em><\/strong>), Les d\u00c3\u00a9couvreuses<\/em><\/strong> is a cheery hardback – or digital – compendium made comprehensible to us, via translation into English by those fine folk at NBM.<\/p>\n

As the name suggests, Women Discoverers<\/strong> focuses on twenty female scientists who generally – without fanfare or even fair credit – changed the world. Some are still doing so. A combination of comics vignettes and short illustrated data epigrams preceded by an impassioned Introduction from Marie-Sophie Pawlak (President of Elles Bougent scientific society), the revelations begin an extended strip history of the achievements of the peerless Marie Curie<\/em> whose discoveries in chemistry and physics practically reinvented the planet. She is followed by brief vignettes of French biologist Fran\u00c3\u00a7oise Barre-Sinoussi <\/em>(discoverer of the HIV retrovirus), Canadian physicist Donna Th\u00c3\u00a9o Strickland<\/em> (laser amplification) and African-American Dorothy Vaughan <\/em>whose mathematical and computing skills served the world at NASA.<\/p>\n

It’s back to comics for Ada Lovelace <\/em>who revolutionized mathematics by inventing computer programming, after which single page biographies describe the achievements of lengths undertaken by French mathematician \u00c3\u2030milie du Ch\u00c3\u00a2telet <\/em>to attend men-only institutions in the days of the Enlightenment.<\/p>\n

Although separated by centuries, mathematicians Emmy Noether <\/em>(Germany 1882-1935) and Grace Alele-Williams <\/em>(born in Niger in 1932) both excelled and triumphed despite male opposition but their stories pale beside the strip-delivered hardships of actress, engineer and mobile phone pioneer Hedy Lamarr<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

Another Nasa stalwart, mathematician\/astrophysicist Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson<\/em>, famously calculated Apollo 11’s life-saving orbit, while paediatrician Marthe Gautier <\/em>discovered the origins of Downs’ Syndrome and Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani’s <\/em>geometry discoveries were tragically cut short by illness\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

The shameful treatment and fate of British researcher Rosalind Franklin <\/em>also ended in a cruelly early death and belated fame, unlike French mathematician, philosopher and physicist Sophie Germain<\/em> whose many (posthumous) triumphs never brought her inclusion in the numerous scientific organisations barring female membership during her lifetime.<\/p>\n

Whereas Marie Curie’s daughter Ir\u00c3\u00a8ne Joliot-Curie <\/em>won similar accolades to her mother, astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell <\/em>discovered pulsars only to have her (male) supervisor steal the credit. At least she’s still alive to see the record set straight\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

In pictorial form, astronaut Mae Jemison <\/em>reveals her life and medical successes on Earth, before this potent paean closes with a trio of one-page wonders: Kevlar inventor Stephanie Kwolek<\/em>, Navy mathematician Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper <\/em>(writer of the COBOL programming language) and Chinese chemist Xie Yi <\/em>whose advances in nanotechnology have made the world a very different place.<\/p>\n

Sure, you could Google them, but this book is a far more satisfying and charming alternative and the very fact that you probably haven’t heard of most of these astounding innovators – or even a few of the more ancient ones – only proves, without doubt, that you need this book.
\n\u00c2\u00a9 2019 Blue Lotus Prod. \u00c2\u00a9 2021 NBM for the English translation.<\/p>\n

For more information and other great reads see\u00c2\u00a0http:\/\/www.nbmpub.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Marie Moinard & Christelle Pecout, translated by Montana Kane (NBM) ISBN: 978-1-68112-270-0 (Album HB) eISBN: 978-1-68112-271-7 Comics and graphic novels have an inconceivable power to deliver information in readily accessible form, and – like all the best teachers – can do so in ways that are fascinating, fun and therefore unforgettable. Here’s a fresh … <\/p>\n

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