Chemistry's crystal seer: Dorothy Hodgkin's work on X-ray crystallography began in the 1930s. It paid off over the following four decades with insights into the structure of important biological crystals
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The origin of mass
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Honoured at last
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A new foreign secretary for science: One of the most successful biologists of her generation and a leading advocate of research on human embryos, Anne McLaren is poised to storm one of science's oldest male bastions
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The life and times of a computing pioneer: Charles Babbage invented all sorts of things besides automatic calculating machines, including 'cow catchers', flashing lighthouses and speedometers. Did he spread his talents too thinly?
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Review: Eye on the heavens
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Review: Look back on gynophobia
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Get thee to a laboratory
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The power of negative matter
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Lost to history's view / Review of 'Reconstructing Babylon: Essays on Woman and Technology' edited by Patricia Hynes
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Forum: Sex and sensibility - The problems in interpreting statistics
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Forum: Let us now praise a famous woman / The questionable wisdom of British institutions in honouring Elena Ceausescu in the late 1970s
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