The History of Science in 21 Women

From Ada Lovelace to Florence Nightingale, Rosalind Franklin to Tu Youyou – discover the women who changed science forever

Imagine a scientist. Maybe they’re wearing a lab coat and safety goggles. Maybe they bear a passing resemblance to Albert Einstein. Most likely they’re a man. However, from radiation to climate change, DNA to computer code, pulsars to the Earth’s core – women have always been at the forefront of scientific discovery.

Reclaiming the legacy of twenty-one trailblazers, from ancient astronomer Hypatia to CRISPR pioneers Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier, Dr Marieke Bigg charts a fresh history of science.

Learn how Ada Lovelace’s tumultuous upbringing inspired her to become the first computer programmer. Join Marie Curie as she becomes the University of Paris’s first female professor, discovers two elements and earns two Nobel prizes, all before the age of forty-five. Learn how Katherine Johnson launched the first American into space – defiant in the face of vast institutional racism.

A timely addition to the growing global conversation around the future of science – and who gets to shape it – A History of Science in 21 Women is a paradigm-shifting exploration of the scientists who history tried, and failed, to brush under the carpet, and why their stories still matter today.

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Lydbog: 3. september 2026