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What Voice?
It is more than 40 years since the American psychologist Carol Gilligan wrote her book, In a Different Voice, challenging the view that women were morally less developed than men, pointing out this difference arose because the schema had been … Continue reading
Posted in Women in Science
Tagged Carol Gilligan, Caroline Herschel, Gene Machine, Jennifer Doudna, Let Toys be Toys, Roger Highfield
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Bust the Heroic Myth in Science
‘Paul Nurse believes in heroes of science’ was a line in my Twitter feed one morning recently ‘and so do I’ continued Roger Highfield, who gave the Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Prize Lecture at the Royal Society on this very topic last year. … Continue reading
Posted in Research, Science Culture
Tagged heroes, Paul Nurse, Peter Higgs, Roger Highfield
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