Scientists: a physicist makes them visible … Thanks to Wikipedia

If his name is probably unknown to you, you may have read one of his Wikipedia entries. True shadow heroinJessica Wade has written biographies of more than 1,600 female scientists in the online encyclopedia. One way to do visible They great forgotten by history and knowledge.

Make the work of female scientists visible

At 33, he denounces this London physicist stereotypes about women and science. She is actively engaged in the fight for a equal access to science subjects between women and men.

For Jessica Wade, this struggle for greater equity is played out not only in education, but also through history. Discarded by great stories, anonymous, invisible, female scientists are gradually becoming part of Wikipedia thanks to her work. In the media Todayexplains that his goal is to highlight the importance of better inclusiveness for science :

“I sincerely believe that science it is better if done by different teams. It is important because we design new technologies or new scientific solutions to global problems, we want the teams of people who create them reflect the companies that they serve. “

Jessica Wade’s biographies have been deleted

proof of his radicalismhis gesture aroused the reactions of multiple censors. Jessica Wade had to contend with the cancellation of many of his entries by other Wikipedia users … under the pretext that women pointed out by Wade they are not famous enough. A height.

Written by Jessica Wade, the Wikipedia page of African American nuclear chemist Clarice Phelps has for example disappeared from the online encyclopedia, until the physicist gets his definitive return. Clarice Phelps attended the discovery of a new element of the periodic table at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Received at Buckingham Palace, Jessica Wade was awarded the prestigious British Empire Medal.

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