Women in science

Welcome (back) to Weirdbeautiful!

Today's links are about women in science.
The first is to the web comic xkcd, which partly inspired the other two links-
http://xkcd.com/896/
(thanks to Joe W. for that link)

The second is to the wikipedia entries for Lise Mietner and
Emmy Noether

It is said that most mathematicians make all their truly important contributions prior to the age of around thirty. Emmy Noether is a nice example of a mathematician who bucks this trend. The German mathematician and theoretical physicist Hermann Weyl described Noether's life's work as occurring in three "epochs"- the last of which, ran from 1927, when she was 45, until her death (from complications of surgery)in 1935.