All Significant figures articles – Page 2
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OpinionMartin Gouterman: the gay man behind the four-orbital model
Abhik Ghosh tells the story of a porphyrin chemist who was a leading figure in Seattle’s gay rights movement of the 1960s
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Stefanie Horovitz – the woman behind the isotope
Overlooked by history, murdered by the Nazis: the forgotten story of a talented chemist who helped prove the existence of isotopes
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Marguerite Perey and the last element in nature
Kit Chapman tells the story of the chemist who discovered francium, but was almost denied the credit
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Ghanaian biochemistry TV star Marian Addy
Marian Addy was the first female science professor in Ghana, who studied herbal medicine – and was a TV star
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Barbara Low, penicillin and the protein pi helix
Mike Sutton celebrates the remarkable career of a female crystallographer, once mistaken for the tea-lady
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Alice Ball’s treatment for leprosy
Nina Notman tells the overlooked story of historic African-American chemist Alice Ball who developed the first partially-effective treatment for leprosy
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Eunice Foote: the mother of climate change
The first person to link carbon dioxide to atmospheric warming has almost been forgotten. Rachel Brazil uncovers her story
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Jimmy Robinson and the atom bomb elements
USAF pilots flew into mushroom clouds to bring back samples that turned out to contain new elements – one of them didn’t make it home
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The indomitable Toshiko Mayeda
Matthew Shindell traces one female scientist’s story from an internment camp to studying the chemistry of the solar system
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Theodora Greene’s protecting groups
Katrina Krämer uncovers the woman behind the book on every organic chemist’s shelf
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Ellie Knaggs and tetrahedral carbon
Ellie Knaggs’ claim to be the first to use x-rays to prove carbon’s tetrahedral bonding in molecules has been overlooked, finds Andy Extance
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