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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Dear colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">I wade in to this topic with some trepidation, because I don’t have a particular recommendation that I have read, but surely there must be some well-done biographies about women-identified scientists and mathematicians?
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">A quick look at Autumn Stanley’s 1993
<i>Mothers and Daughters of Invention: Notes for a Revised History of Technology</i> lists a number of names and short bios.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">I haven’t read it, but perhaps Evelyn Fox
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Keller’s <i>A Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock</i> (1983)?
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Of course, there’s Margot Shetterly’s
<i>Hidden Figures</i> about Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#111111;background:white">, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden, which isn’t strictly a biography (and which I also haven’t read.)</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">In short, I would welcome further recommendations and also encourage those of us who are writing about white male-identified scientists to ask who was not in the room or at the table or getting recognized
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Sincere thanks for the collected wisdom of SIGCIS,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Sharon Irish<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Research Affiliate<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Members <members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org> on behalf of Jeffrey Yost <yostx003@umn.edu><br>
<b>Date: </b>Thursday, September 3, 2020 at 1:17 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>Troy Astarte <Troy.Astarte@newcastle.ac.uk><br>
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<b>Subject: </b>Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Request for biographies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Bill Aspray's <i>John von Neumann and the Origins of Modern Computing</i>, a deeply insightful and path breaking work of scholarship, in large part a biography, and much more. Andrew Hodges
<i>Alan Turing: The Enigma</i>. Leslie Berlin's <i>The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley</i> is a great bio on this influential physicist, engineer, and entrepreneur in IT. (And sticking with the Fairchild, Intel
and Silicon Valley theme...) Arnold Thackray, David Brock, and Rachel Jones' <i>Moore's Law: The Life of Gordon Moore, Silicon Valley's Quiet Revolutionary</i>. Agree what others have said on Waldrop's
<i>The Dream Machine</i>, an excellent book by this top science journalist. And I very highly recommend Hunter's excellent biography on Herbert Simon.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#4D5156"> The Man behind the Microchip : </span><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#5F6368">Robert Noyce</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#4D5156"> and
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 6:31 AM Troy Astarte <<a href="mailto:Troy.Astarte@newcastle.ac.uk" target="_blank">Troy.Astarte@newcastle.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">What is your favourite biography of a scientist or mathematician? I’m particularly interested in modern subjects and those who worked in computing/computer science. Ideally the book would cover the subject’s work in a reasonable level of
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<p class="MsoNormal">I ask because I am considering applying for funding for an essentially biographical project on a computer scientist and I would like to read some (more) biographies first. <o:p></o:p></p>
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