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…to Female Science Professor, a researcher at a large US university who blogs about working in physical sciences, an academic field dominated by men.
…to Rachel Webster, Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Melbourne, a leader of the Square Kilometre Array telescope project. Received a Nature award for scientific mentoring in 2006 and helped introduce the Women In Physics program at Melbourne, increasing the number of female students in that field. Added to the Victorian Honour Roll of Women in March 2010.
…to Elizabeth Blackburn, the Australian Nobel Laureate (2009) who co-discovered telomerase, an enzyme that replenishes the the telomere, a structure at the end of chromosomes that seems to be involved in ageing.
…and to the microbiologists, metalworkers, engineers, physicians, chemists and the many other working women listed in the Australian Women’s Register.
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This post was written for Ada Lovelace Day, 24 March 2010, an international celebration of women in science and technology. This event was founded by Suw Charman-Anderson – yay, Suw!
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