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Alternate Title: Young and Just

Emlyn tells Emma about Dr. Roger Arliner Young, the first African American woman to receive a PhD in zoology and publish an article in Science, and Emma tells Emlyn about Dr. Jess Wade, who wrote Wikipedia pages of 270+ female scientists! 

Main Story - Roger Arliner Young

1. The San Diego Supercomputer Center’s Women in Science: https://www.sdsc.edu/ScienceWomen/young.html


2. Zoologist Roger Arliner Young and the Politics of Respectability by Dr. Sara Diaz: https://www.aaihs.org/zoologist-roger-arliner-young-and-the-politics-of-respectability/


3. Scientific American article by DNLee https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/urban-scientist/roger-arliner-young-zoologist/


4. Young, R.A. On the excretory apparatus in paramecium. Science. Vol 60, Issue 1550. Sep 12 1924

Women who werk

S/O this week to Dr. Jess Wade for writing the Wikipedia pages of 270+ female scientists this year! More about her work:

1. https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/jul/24/academic-writes-270-wikipedia-pages-year-female-scientists-noticed


2. https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/27/health/scientist-women-wikipedia-entries-trnd/index.html

Music

“Work” by Rihanna

“Mary Anning” by Artichoke