A time of celebration and recognition, Pride Month is honoured every June across the globe. One of the most iconic symbols of the LGBTQ+ community and one of nature’s most beautiful phenomena is the rainbow. This captivating display of colour is a fascinating snapshot of the physical properties of light. Continue reading “A Spectrum of Colour: The Physics Behind the Rainbow”
Historically forgotten Physicists: Rosemary Candlin
For the next in our series of posts spotlighting underappreciated women in physics, we will be covering the crystallographer, computer scientist, and lecturer Rosemary Candlin, and her work at the University of Edinburgh.
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Historically forgotten Physicists: Katherine Clerk Maxwell
It is no secret that the field of physics, like every science, has long been affected by sexist and colonial power systems. This has meant that, through centuries of scientific innovation, women and minority physicists have not been given the credit they deserved for their work, and have never taken their rightful place in the history books. Lack of representation is still a problem in the field. One of the primary ways this can be tackled is by highlighting the work of underappreciated physicists, both historical and contemporary, in an attempt to address the imbalances in the field. We should also interrogate why exactly it was that they never gained their rightful place in the scientific canon.
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