Scientist knew CO2 warms the atmosphere since 1859 as J.Tyndall experimentally demonstrated…or did he? Fact is 3yr earlier a #women in #STEM published her results w same findings, her name was Eunice Newton Foote & this is her nearly forgotten discovery: 🧪#AcademicSky 🎢
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If she had gone by Newton Foote, would her work have been ignored? Women wrote under male names in the first half (mainly) of the 19th century to get published. But as a scientist do you do that? Or do you want the world to know that a woman had done this.
