acknowledgments

Thank you, Barbara Whitten, Colorado College Physics / Feminist and Gender Studies, for your 2015 talk on Sarah Frances Whiting, which was the seed for this series of poems.

Thank you, Rebecca Barnes, Colorado College Environmental Studies, for your ongoing work on women in science, particularly the Women in STEM Wikipedia Biographies project with CC students.

Thank you to everyone who suggested subjects for poems and/or helped in other ways: Marianne Reddin Aldrich, Melissa Penwell Belanger, Aage Bendiksen, Anna Primrose Bendiksen, Bruce Harris Bentzman, Fiona Haser Bizony, Janice Frankel Block, Amy Brooks, Ginna Brooks, Heather Powell Browne, Greg Coxson, Inge-Marie Eigsti, Paul Erickson, Re Evitt, Darcy Falk, Kathy Giuffre, Celia Gresham, Jennifer Gresham, Nicole Gresham, Ross Gresham, Julie Grisham, Tali Herman, Sarah Healy, Kris Kanthak, Anju Kanumalla, Terry Kind, Kathleen Kirk, Sandra Knauf, Rebecca Laroche, Lisa Lister, Phoebe Lostroh, Eva Lovell, Andrea Lucard, Norah McCormick, Heather McHale, Sarah Milteer, Amanda Newman, Carol Newman, Josh Newman, Alexei Pavlenko, Arthur Porter, Katherine Randall, Amy Shuffelton, Jane Shuffelton, Alan Simon, Maxine Simon, Steve Simon, Dava Sobel, Bill Stoesen, Robert Stoesen, Margaret Towers, David Weinstock, Anna Wermuth, Barbara Whitten, Dina Wood, Cindi Zenkert-Strange.

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selected novels, poems, and films

Mary Anning: Chevalier, Tracy. Remarkable Creatures: A Novel. New York: Penguin, 2016. Kessel, John. Pride and Prometheus. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010. Thomas, Joan. Curiosity: A Love Story. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2010. 2020 film Ammonite.
James Miranda Barry: Levy, E.J. The Cape Doctor: A Novel. New York: Little, Brown, 2021.
Bertha Benz: Haw, Penny. The Woman at the Wheel: A Novel. Naperville, Illinois: Sourcebooks, 2023.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Rachel Carson, Marie Curie, Barbara McClintock: "Affinities and Disturbances" site-based dance, Barnes Science Center, Colorado College, 2020.
May Chinn: Haulsey, Kuwana. Angel of Harlem: A Novel. New York: Random House, 2004.
Marie Curie: Redniss, Lauren. Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout. New York: HarperCollins, 2016. Graphic novel. Adapted into the 2019 film Radioactive.
Rosalind Franklin: "Rosalind Franklin vs. Watson and Crick - Science History Rap Battle." 7th grade students, KIPP Bridge Charter School, Oakland, California, 2013.
Hedy Lamarr: Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (2018 PBS documentary).
Maria Sibylla Merian: Diane Ackerman poem in Scientific American in 2020. She says in her bio note she's working on a novel about Merian!
Maria Mitchell, Maria Sibylla Merian, Mary Anning: Atkins, Jeannine. Finding Wonders: Three Girls Who Changed Science. Poetry. New York: Atheneum, 2016.
Beatrix Potter: 2006 film Miss Potter.
Emily Roebling: Wood, Tracey Enerson. The Engineer's Wife: A Novel. Naperville, Illinois: Sourcebooks Landmark, 2020.
Mary Treat: Kingsolver, Barbara. Unsheltered: A Novel. New York: HarperCollins, 2018.

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