Erin’s Reviews > Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science-and the World > Status Update

Lise Meitner was completely used by her research partner when she had to flee Germany for being Jewish. Rarr!

"[Rosalind] Franklin was precise, literal, and always more at home with data than with speculation."

This sounds like me!

I admire Barbara McClintock's confidence. She didn't care that other scientists didn't understand her experiments or that universities didn't want to hire her because she was having fun and knew she was right.

"As a research worker, the unforgotten moments of my life are those rare ones, which come after years of plodding work, when the veil over nature's secret seems suddenly to lift and when what was dark and chaotic appears in a clear and beautiful light" -- Gerty Cori