8 Mar 2023

Science: Famous (female) scientists who didn't get their due

From Nine To Noon, 11:45 am on 8 March 2023

Science commentator Allan Blackman joins Kathryn on International Women's Day to look at scientists who didn't receive recognition for their work because they were women - highlighting the case of astrophysicist Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell.

He'll also talk about a recent decision in Scotland to stop its hospitals using the anaesthetic desflurane because of the threat it poses to the environment.

Allan Blackman is a Professor of Chemistry, School of Science, Auckland University of Technology

Images of Beatrice Tinsley, Jocelyn Bell Burnell and surgery

Photo: Wikipedia, Be Funky