You know the Big Bang Theory episode where Sheldon adopts all those cats
and names them after scientists who were part of the Manhattan Project
WHERE IS THE “HOWARD STARK” CAT SHELDON
WHERE
Serious question, though: where were the Leona Woods and Chien-Shiung Wu cats? Or the later-Nobel Laureate Maria Goeppert-Mayer?
Loads of women scientists were involved in the Manhattan Project. Read more about them here!
It is funny, how erasure of women from history can be a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it would be nice to think that women were not tangled up in such a destructive project. But they were there, and we owe it to them and future generations to remember them.
I think we all know who was on Howard Stark’s security detail, though:
