Charlie Evans

While scientists were trying really hard to expand the fossil record, a young English girl was dedicated to searching through rocks on the beach. She was on the hunt for things she called ‘curiosities’ – unusually shaped bits of rock that she would sell to help support her poor family after her father died. Her name was Mary Anning. And while she didn’t know it at the time, she …

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Vera Rubin was the American astronomer who changed the way we think of the universe.  Vera Cooper shared a bedroom with her sister in a small house in Washington, D.C. It was the early 1940s, so cars were less common, street lights were dimmer, high-rise buildings weren’t quite so high, and the night sky was …

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