4 Women Who Rocked Physics

[SchatzeDefect]

Found this article on mental_floss, 4 Women Who Rocked Physics (http://digg.com/general_sciences/4_Women_Who_Rocked_Physics).

[tiny-tim]

hmm … it says the four are Meitner, Wu, Goeppert-Mayer, and Brooks …

I'd only ever heard of Meitner. :redface:

(I'd have included Noether, and Bell Burnell)

(wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Women_physicists) has a list of 47 women physicists)

[Pinu7]

*Refraining myself from saying a bad sexist joke*

I think if they ONLY can find four women who've made a notable difference in physics, it is obviously not enough.

The article proves that the gender gap in physics is still very large.

[arunma]

hmm … it says the four are Meitner, Wu, Goeppert-Mayer, and Brooks …

I'd only ever heard of Meitner. :redface:

(I'd have included Noether, and Bell Burnell)

(wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Women_physicists) has a list of 47 women physicists)

It's a bit sad when the Wikipedia article on women physicists has only 47 entries.