Hope Jahren

What if the first woman scientist was simply the first woman?

Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in, and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen?If there’s a better description of what […]

One girl’s scientific coming of age.