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Forgotten Women in Science Education

The Case of Mary Amelia Swift

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Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of Madame Marie Sklodowska Curie’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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The author has studied the lives of a number of early women scientists and found that little was known about the early textbook author Mary Amelia Swift. The author has written about her several times with the power of the Internet revealing more of her life on each occasion. She is noted for two slim volumes that introduced American children to the study of science in the nineteenth century. Her dates of birth and death are uncertain and different sources contradict each other concerning a number of details of her life. Nonetheless using the power of the Internet and some rare texts, many details of her life are gradually being revealed.

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Palmer, W.P. (2011). Forgotten Women in Science Education. In: Chiu, MH., Gilmer, P.J., Treagust, D.F. (eds) Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of Madame Marie Sklodowska Curie’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry. SensePublishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-719-6_9

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