Alice Ball (1892 - 1916) - chemist
Men dominated higher education in 1915, and Alice Ball was admitted against the odds. -Miles Jackson, University of Hawaii Professor and Dean Emeritus
Postcrossing Unofficial: Philippines
Postmarked: October 2025
Dorothy Hodgkin (1910 - 1994) - biochemist and x-ray crystallographer
I was captured for life by chemistry and crystals.
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Postmarked: Santa Barbara, California; June 2025
Nettie Stevens (1861 - 1912) - geneticist
Miss Stevens had a share in a discovery of importance, and her work will be remembered for this. -Thomas Hunt Morgan
Postcrossing: Romania; 137 days; 4,814 miles
Postmarked: February - July 2025
Ada Lovelace (1815 - 1852) - mathematician and writer
Imagination is the discovering faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of science.
Postmarked: Spain; October 2025
Barbara McClintock (1902 - 1992) - cytogeneticist
When you have joy, you do the right experiments. You let the material tell you where to go, and it tells you at every step what the next has to be...
Elizabeth Blackwell (1821 - 1910) - doctor
If the present arrangements of society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodled.
Postcrossing: Germany; 11 days; 4,188 miles
Postmarked: February - March 2025
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (1942 - ) - biologist
I immediately loved working with flies. They fascinated me, and followed me around in my dreams.
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Postmarked: Hartford, Connecticut; January 2025
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (1942 - ) - biologist
I immediately loved working with flies. They fascinated me, and followed me around in my dreams.
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Postmarked: Hartford, Connecticut; October 2024
Rosalind Franklin (1920 - 1958) - chemist and x-ray crystallographer
Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated.
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Postmarked: Hartford, Connecticut; December 2024
Esther Lederberg (1922 - 2006) - microbiologist
You can begin anytime, even though it takes a lifetime to be good.
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900 - 1979) - astronomer and astrophysicist
There is no joy more intense than that of coming upon a fact that cannot be understood in terms of currently accepted ideas.
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Sau Lan Wu (1940 - ) - particle physicist
I grew up with a strong determination to be financially independent of men.
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