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Silvio Casagrande

27 Feb, 8 tweets, 3 min read

preparing my data and process to post the quotes from the book Delusions of Gender: The Real Science Behind Sex Differences goodreads.com/book/show/1613… I found this reference "... and Sophie Germain were obliged to present themselves as men to carry out their research"

and I know where she lived until her death! 13 Rue de Savoie, Paris goo.gl/maps/JzVbiLDvU…

More on here from Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Ge… She exchanged letters and works with Lagrange and Gauss. Gauss recommended she should awarded an honorary degree, but never occurred....

In the France of post French Revolution she did not have access to formal education, so she taught herself reading her father's books

"Une étudiante clandestine" femmessavantes.pressbooks.com/chapter/sophie…

another book to add to the reading list Scientists Anonymous: Great Stories of Women in Science, amazon.com/Scientists-Gre…

and I could not find a reference about Sophie Germain in Científicas: Cocinan, limpian y ganan el Premio Nobel by Valeria Edelsztein goodreads.com/book/show/1785… but I strongly recommend it to add to your reading list! (I have a paper version)

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