My history with Madame Curie
Marie Curie at 150 – Celebrating Women in STEM My parents had two large bookshelves in our dining room, and as soon as I could read I would rummage through them searching for something good. When I was...
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Marie Curie at 150 – Celebrating Women in STEM. I am a devoted scientist, a professor in STEM, particularly in biomedicine, and I also juggle my private life in parallel with my scientific career. I...
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Marie Curie at 150 – Celebrating Women in STEM “Am I a logician? A writer? A mother? A woman?” While finding my way to the Centre for the History of Science at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, I...
View ArticleThereza Story-Maskelyne 1834–1926
Marie Curie at 150 – Celebrating Women in STEM The enigmatic female figure on the cover of Darwin and Women, pointing a telescope at a murky sea, is Thereza Dillwyn Llewelyn, the daughter of the Welsh...
View ArticleThe Struggle for Equality, Recognition and Reward
Marie Curie at 150 – Celebrating Women in STEM Pierre insisted that her name be added About a century ago, Marie Sklodowska-Curie, in spite of her outstanding work and discoveries which led to two...
View ArticleIn memory of Emil Wolf, 1922-2018
On June 2, 2018, the optics world lost one of its great scientists, as Emil Wolf passed away at the age of 95. He left as his legacy not only an incredible body of work, including over 300 papers and...
View ArticleMarking International Women’s Day: Why it Matters
As International Women’s Day approaches, we at Cambridge University Press prepare with promotions to highlight specific journal articles and books of resonance to this important topic. I have been...
View ArticleWhat is it like to record your own audiobook?
Author Mike Berners-Lee gives us an insight into what it’s like to record an audiobook version of his book “There Is No Planet B“ “ When I write, I am thinking of myself talking, which is why people...
View ArticleVideo: Interview with ‘Cosmic Revolutionary’ Geraint Lewis
Interview with ‘Cosmic Revolutionary’ Geraint Lewis from CUP Academic on Vimeo. TRANSCRIPT: Geraint Lewis: I’m Geraint Lewis and I’m a professor of astrophysics at the University of Sydney and I am...
View ArticleWilliam Shakespeare and Cambridge University Press: A History
William Shakespeare was born just thirty years after the founding of Cambridge University Press, yet it was another three hundred years before the Press started printing his works. Since then, we have...
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