Do women deserve more credit? The Royal Society has digitalised 250,000 historical scientific texts. They shine a light on how women have often been pushed to science’s margins.
Incredible objects that made science history
Findings: In the 19th Century, fossil hunters sent drawings of their discoveries to the Royal Society. Glossary
Geologist - A scientists who studies rocks and other materials that make up the Earth's surface.
Oxfordshire - A county in England.
Nebula - A cloud of gas or dust in outer space.
Ada Lovelace - An English mathematician known as the first computer programmer.
Marie Curie - A Polish-French pioneer in the study of radioactivity and the first woman to win a Nobel Prize.
Nobel Prizes - A set of prizes, laid out in the will of Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, given each year to people who "have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind".