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Right near the escalators, they had a telescope used by one of my favorite Science Heroines, Maria Mitchell, an astronomer who discovered a comet in 1847 and taught science to women at Vassar College.
Zoe P. Strassfield: Space History in DC -- Science in American Life Zoe P. Strassfield 2011
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Right near the escalators, they had a telescope used by one of my favorite Science Heroines, Maria Mitchell, an astronomer who discovered a comet in 1847 and taught science to women at Vassar College.
Zoe P. Strassfield: Space History in DC -- Science in American Life Zoe P. Strassfield 2011
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Right near the escalators, they had a telescope used by one of my favorite Science Heroines, Maria Mitchell, an astronomer who discovered a comet in 1847 and taught science to women at Vassar College.
Zoe P. Strassfield: Space History in DC -- Science in American Life Zoe P. Strassfield 2011
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Study as if you were going to live forever; Live as if you were going to die tomorrow - Maria Mitchell
Friday Top 5 2010
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But being a generation younger, Maria Mitchell was far more assertive than Mary Somerville about the vital importance of women actually doing science.
The Royal Society's lost women scientists Richard Holmes 2010
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As Maria Mitchell had put it, with one of her famous smiles: We especially need imagination in science.
The Royal Society's lost women scientists Richard Holmes 2010
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This was notably true of the first great American woman astronomer, Maria Mitchell.
The Royal Society's lost women scientists Richard Holmes 2010
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By the turn of the century, major science was indeed being done by women, just as Mary Somerville had hoped and Maria Mitchell had firmly predicted.
The Royal Society's lost women scientists Richard Holmes 2010
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Maria Mitchell once said "That knowledge which is popular is not scientific" so maybe it is time to differentiate from the norm look to where no one has looked before.
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The word was attached, for example, to a single new "landmark object" -- an 1865 telescope used by America's first female astronomer, Maria Mitchell; a two-case display of Civilian Conservation Corps archival materials; a small wall case of "sporting inventions" like a snowboard for disabled people; and a tiny Libraries space featuring "Picturing Words: The Power of Book Illustration."
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