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Focusing on women in tech and engineering on Wikipedia

2012-09-25 16:57:22.681747+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

In honor of the legacy of Ada Lovelace, The Royal Society will be doing a Wikipedia edit-a-thon to flesh out the entries on women of note in technology and engineering:

Among the profiles being considered for the edit-a-thon are Dame Kathleen Lonsdale, a crystallographer who discovered the chemical structure of oil component benzene, and Dr Elsie Widdowson who oversaw the introduction of vitamin supplements to food during World War II rationing.

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