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JOHN GRIBBIN's numerous bestselling books include In Search of Schrödinger's Cat and Six Impossible Things, which was shortlisted for the 2019 Royal Society Science Book Prize. He has been described as 'one of the finest and most prolific writers of popular science around' by the Spectator. In 2021, he was made Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Astronomy at the University of Sussex. MARY GRIBBIN is a teacher and science writer, and previous winner of the TES Junior Information Book Award. She is a Visiting Fellow at the University of Sussex. With John Gribbin she has written several science books, including Being Human, Fire on Earth, major biographies of Richard Feynman and Robert FitzRoy, and the 'in 90 minutes' series of biographies.
A brilliant balancing act, spanning three women scientists who did win Nobel Prizes, three who certainly should have done - Lise Meitner, Rosalind Franklin and Chien-Shiung Wu - and six whose reputations are still emerging from the patriarchal pall, including Eunice Newton Foote, who discovered the CO2 greenhouse effect in 1856, three years before John Tyndall. Brava! * Peter Forbes, author of The Gecko's Foot and Thinking Small and Large * An astonishing - and much-needed - roll-call of science's neglected pioneers. It's been too long. * Liz Kalaugher, author of The Elephant in the Room * Deftly highlights how women have been considered unsuitable as researchers for reasons other than their ability and commitment. * Nature *
