Posts Tagged ‘women in STEM’
From the Archives. Talking About Women’s History: Three Questions and an Answer with Dava Sobels
Every year I gather up my courage to invite at least one writer whom I do not know and whose work is extraordinary. This year that writer was Dava Sobel. I fan-girled all over the house when she said yes. Dava Sobel is the author of Longitude (Walker 1995, Bloomsbury 2005), Galileo’s Daughter (Walker 1999…
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From the Archives: Talking About Women’s History and Overnight Code with Paige Bowers
This one dates from 2021. I was glad to pull it out and read it again. *** I’ve been waiting to read Paige Bowers’s Overnight Code, the story of groundbreaking computer engineer and ship designer Raye Montague, ever since Paige announced the deal more than a year ago. When I finally got my hands on…
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Talking About Women’s History: Three Questions and an Answer with Olivia Campbell
Olivia Campbell is the New York Times bestselling author of Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine and Sisters in Science: How Four Women Physicists Escaped Nazi Germany and Made Scientific History. She is also a thesis advisor at Johns Hopkins University’s science writing master’s program and a…
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