Last night's excellent programme on Jocelyn Bell Burnell...

[SethStarkaddersMum]

....reminded me that when my mum was trying to come up with the names of 4 famous women scientists to name her GCSE science groups in a girl's school after in the 1980s, she struggled.

All they could come up with in the staff room was Marie Curie and Rosalind Franklin.

Jocelyn Bell was only familiar to those in the know.
Ada Lovelace was not on the radar.
Mary Anning was a familiar name but thought of as a random girl who got lucky in her fossil collecting, not taken seriously as any kind of scientist.

A little bit of progress here, at least.
And by the way, did anyone else see the programme?

I've got it recorded

Yes it was fabulous. Do you think she should have got the Nobel Prize?

Bother, missed it.

Anyone else looking for famous female scientists should include Dorothy Hodgkin - she won the Nobel Prize.

I suspect she should have had the prize but I don't know enough about it to really be sure.
What was clear, though, was that her supervisor was a dork and extremely ungracious - it wouldn't have killed him to say something positive about her contribution instead of waffling on about leaders of expeditions and people at the masthead spotting land.
However I know people who know him and they don't have a very high opinion of him, based on his track record running the Cavendish Lab

I saw it, great programme and very inspiring lady.

My brother is doing a PhD and is leading the way on something very technical. It is all his work. He gets so cross as his supervisors are reluctant to share name credits in the press. Academia is a bunfight sometimes by the sounds of it.