This was a very intriguing topic for me. Now more than ever, women are starting to be recognized for work they put into scientific fields in the past as opposed to some of their male colleagues who got the credit. When I was going through middle school and high school there would be the occasional teacher who would mention females in science but overall not many were mentioned. Before today, and Tuesday, I had only heard of two of the women mentioned: Rosalind Franklin and Marie Curie. I had never even known that Marie Curie had a daughter who also won the Nobel prize. In general chemistry I remember a couple father-son Nobel prizes being mentioned, but never the mother-daughter. It is very intriguing how these contributions are being recognized now, but you can wonder how many of them will never be recognized at all and were lost in history. Overall, this was a very educational and enjoyable presentation.
It was only through Caroline’s presentation that I learned of Marie Curie’s daughter as well. It s interesting to speculate as to whether nurture or nature played a bigger role for her becoming a Nobel Prize-winning scientist.