Inspiration at all levels

Today the Science Academy elected its new fellows, and we were delighted to see two women physicists afforded the honour.  You can learn more about Professor Maria Forsyth and Professor Christine Charles in the videos the Academy have produced about them and their work.

  
Elsewhere, some of you may have see reference to the #girlswithtoys hashtag, a response to an offhand comment by a senior US Astronomer that astronomy was just 'boys with toys'. Cue thousands of women scientists saying 'hang on a moment, we're here too!'  The outcry got quite a bit of media exposure - and resulted in some lovely images - we've picked a few below.  Perhaps you have more to add? 

Nope! Not even at Nat'l Labs: Science isn't just for 'boys with toys' http://t.co/D9Nq1dK20x @mashable #GirlsWithToys pic.twitter.com/WlU81upz5c

— LosAlamosNationalLab (@LosAlamosNatLab) May 18, 2015

Maria Goeppert Mayer, 1963 #NobelPrize in Physics for discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure #GirlsWithToys pic.twitter.com/e8U3iP63j3

— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) May 18, 2015

Katharine Blodgett, 1st woman to earn a physics PhD @Cambridge_Uni, with a Langmuir-Blodgett trough: #girlswithtoys pic.twitter.com/sP8rovBUib

— Dr Paul Coxon (@paulcoxon) May 17, 2015

I'm afraid Margaret Hamilton just won #GirlsWithToys “@stevemilan: Still blown away by this photo. pic.twitter.com/9KsiKCAKRh”

— Elizabeth Tasker (@girlandkat) May 17, 2015