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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. http://www.climate.gov/news-features/features/happy-200th-birthday-eunice-foote-hidden-climate-science-pioneer #history #science #ClimateChange

#science #history #climatechange
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Konrad Rudolph
Konrad Rudolph
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A woman’s contribution to science relegated to a foote note yet again.

(Sorry!)

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jackcole
jackcole
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There are similar stories for Katherine Way (nuclear fission), Cecelia Payne-Gaposchkin (composition of Sun), and other women who weren't credited with their discoveries. Discarding, denying, discouraging talent of half of the population greatly retards advancement and even survivability of humanity. Needlessly.

"Look Around the Habitable World:
How Few Know Their Own Good,
Or Knowing It, Pursue."
- Dryden

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DJ
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
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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Jay Bikay PhD
Jay Bikay PhD
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I refer to Eunice Foote in the acknowledgements section of my PhD thesis 😀
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Stirling & Clacks SWT
Stirling & Clacks SWT
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Small newly-emerged Common Puffballs, I think, RH one maybe 2.5cms, plus one tiny sibling. Under yews near Golf Course car park, Stirling Uni. Also, yet another turfed up specimen of The Prince. I think Crows maybe knock them over to get at the bit of stem under the ground. I’ve seen a crow carrying a piece of low stem of The Prince from this site, as if taking it back to the nest. Any views on this idea? #ScottishWildlife #FungiUK
Small white fungi shaped like short fat fingers, with slightly darker small bumps on their surfaces, against dried up confer twigs in the leaf litter.
Close-up of specimen of The Prince lying on its side. Fat white stem, wide thick cap of beige colour , darker at centre of cap, with whitish gills just visible through cracks in the cap
#fungiuk #scottishwildlife
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Asariel
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
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
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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Eric Winnert
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jeez 160 years we've had the climate science, and still do nothing.
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Sheril Kirshenbaum
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@Irisfreundin https://mastodon.social/@Sheril/109579693193492485

Sheril Kirshenbaum

2022-12-26 11:17:03


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. https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201502/physicshistory.cfm #women #history #science #HistoryRemix


@Nervensäge 💐
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Sabine.Pahl
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
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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