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Science and InventionElizabeth Fulhame the first solo female researcher of modern chemistry who invented the concept of catalysis and discovered photoreduction...!
Just found out about her today : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Fulhame
Pity that her birth name is not known... Only her married name... But at least she was not completely erased from History by marriage the way I heard some other women who did notable things did nor did her husband take credit for her work the way it happened to some other women... Even if her work was forgotten for a while...
"According to the introduction of her book by her American editor in 1810, her work was lesser known than it could or should have been, adding that "the pride of science, revolted at the idea of being taught by a female".[25][4][26]
Fulhame says as much in her own preface to the work:
"But censure is perhaps inevitable: for some are so ignorant, that they grow sullen and silent, and are chilled with horror at the sight of anything that nears the semblance of learning, in whatever shape it may appear; and should be the spectre appear in the shape of a woman, the pangs which they suffer are truly dismal."
Geez, could have been written today! :-)