I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if the other two major achievements of 20th century science (Relativity and Quantum Theory) also weren’t helped along by the contributions of female scientists. At any rate, the contributions of German Jews can be considered responsible for advances in modern physics in the 1920s.

By failing to take advantage of, and encouraging and developing, the talents of 1/2 the population, we are doing incalculable damage to the human race. The political and social philosophies that further racist and misogynist ideas are malignant toxins that need to be exterminated once and for all.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/seeing-believing-how-marie-tharp-changed-geology-forever-180960192/

There must have been a moment when, while staring at Leavitt’s data, (yes Hubble had his Franklin, too) those faint, fuzzy little blobs on the photographic plates were not small structures ejected by the Milky Way, but that they were other Milky Ways, other galaxies, stretching far off to infinity. There must have been a single moment in one mind, one human, who suddenly realized just how big the universe really was.

I imagine the right musical score to accompany this moment should be something from Bach.

It was almost exactly a century ago. The structure of DNA came a half-century later. There really hasn’t been anything comparable since.

Hubble died the same year Watson and Crick made their model.