The gender balance in science and tech is notoriously uneven, but that hasn't stopped women from slaying giants in their fields. Take Donna Strickland, who recently became the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in physics in 55 years. 1/ #WomenInScience wired.trib.al/5BlFnXX
...or Fei-Fei Li, an artificial intelligence researcher who is working to create algorithms with more human sensitivity—and less bias. 2/ #WomenInScience wired.trib.al/5Y8gqmF
...or Cohl Furey, a mathematical physicist at the University of Cambridge, who’s finding the links between particle physics and the octonions, eight-dimensional numbers that could help us understand the force holding atoms together. 3/ #WomenInScience wired.trib.al/Gx0Vdzx
...or Sau Lan Wu, whose name appears on more than 1,000 papers, half a dozen of the most important experiments, and has been a part of not one, not two, but three of the biggest discoveries in her field in the last 50 years. 4/ #WomenInScience wired.trib.al/ziAQ4cP
...or women like Betty Holberton, Elizabeth Feinler, Radia Perlman, and Janet Walker who, from bookmarks to web domains, shaped the internet as we know it. 5/ #WomenInScience wired.trib.al/RSPNP2N
...or Elizebeth Friedman, whose work uncovering the secrets of Nazi spies in World War II as a codebreaker has only recently come out from under the shadow of her husband. 6/ #WomenInScience wired.trib.al/21bQOl2
...or Margaret Hamilton, who led an epic feat of engineering during the Apollo space program that would help change the future of what was humanly—and digitally—possible. 7/ #WomenInScience wired.trib.al/wb0sUIl
And those are just a few of the badass women in the worlds of science and tech. Know any others who you think deserve some kudos? Shout 'em out!
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