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Physicist John Tyndall is often credited w discovering the greenhouse effect, which he wrote about in 1859.

But Eunice Foote published a paper - 3yrs earlier - demonstrating how atmospheric water vapor & CO2 affected solar heating. She theorized that heat trapping gases in Earth’s atmosphere warm its climate.

Tyndall was widely read. And Foote, being a woman, wasn't even permitted to present her own work. climate.gov/news-features/feat… #history #science #ClimateChange

Drawing by Carlyn Iverson at NOAA Climate.gov. Born on July 17, 1819, Eunice Newton Foote was an amateur scientist and a women's rights campaigner who was friends with American suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Foote's experiments with atmospheric gases and her insights about past climate were overlooked for more than a century.
#science #history #climatechange
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Konrad Rudolph
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A woman’s contribution to science relegated to a foote note yet again.

(Sorry!)

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DJ
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DJ
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I've seen a bunch of these lately (women and minorities not being credited) and I keep sharing them with my wife, appreciate the post.
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normen
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normen
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It was just easier to take something from a woman back then. Theres many examples of this, just think Edison and Tesla. Who's name is first on a paper is another of these things. Often students make the discovery and their prof gets the credit.
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Asariel
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Asariel
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People should read 'The scientific education of women' speech by Eugenio Maria de Hostos. Especially those who are in crystal ceiling organization.
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Threadbane
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Threadbane
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The greenhouse effect was proposed in 1824 by Joseph Fourier, although he didn't use that expression.
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Phil Rees
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We should also give credit to Louisa Tyndall for her silent co-authorship of many of John's papers and her highly effective research into the medicinal uses of chloral hydrate.
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Sheril Kirshenbaum
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@Irisfreundin mastodon.social/@Sheril/109579…

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2022-12-26 11:17:03

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Fission is in the news, but few recognize that a woman physicist was behind the discovery.

Lise Meitner’s brilliance led to the discovery of nuclear fission. But her long time collaborator Otto Hahn, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry w/o her in 1944, even though she had given the first theoretical explanation.

Albert Einstein called Meitner “our Marie Curie." She also adamantly refused to work on the atomic bomb during WWII. aps.org/publications/apsnews/2… #women #history #science #HistoryRemix

Lise Meitner around 1906 in Vienna. Photographer unknown. Public domain.

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Sabine.Pahl
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Well, there you go: "The sphere of woman embraces not only the beautiful and the useful, but the true" (on introducing the scientific work of Mrs. Eunice Foote)
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SellaTheChemist
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At the risk of being accused of mansplaining, the idea that the atmosphere changed/affected planetary temperature, later referred to as the greenhouse effect, is down to Joseph Fourier who obsessed about heat transfer for decades.
What Eunice Foote spotted was that CO2 and wet/damp air gave rise to heating in a glass jar when exposed to sunlight. Her lovely, simple experiment, that many of us have repeated as a demonstration, is actually quite hard to explain…

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