单词 | woman of science |
释义 | > as lemmaswoman of science b. woman of science: †(a) a woman of knowledge or understanding (obsolete); (b) a woman who is an expert in or student of one or more branches of (esp. natural or physical) science; a female scientist (now somewhat archaic). ΚΠ 1591 J. M. Phillippes Venus f. 2 To burne one Candle, in seeking another: to exercise our tungs, fill our eares, but deceiue our expectations: to talke of warre, were too vnseemelye for women of Science, not fitting our sexe. 1757 W. Huggins Annot. Orlando Furioso 73/2 This charming nurse is a woman of Science, skilled in the laconic as well as the pathetic, and an excellent oratrix. 1817 Revealer of Secrets II. viii. 129 It was easy to become a woman of science; she had only to talk of gas, and oxygen and decomposition. 1883 P. A. Hanaford Daughters of Amer. 263 Mary M. Chase (though she would hardly have numbered herself among the women of science) was a lover of botany. 1909 Science 26 Nov. 757/1 Women of genius would be given an equal opportunity with men of genius, and the absurd distinctions of salary inherited from the public schools would no longer be a drag upon the scientific work of the university. The woman of science, like the man, would be worthy her hire. 1975 Bull. Atomic Scientists Feb. 47/2 Rachel Carson, a woman of science who heard the message more clearly than her male colleagues, launched the environmental revolution in the United States with her publication of Silent Spring. 2013 Edmonton (Alberta) Jrnl. (Nexis) 3 June d1 Santarossa is a veterinarian, so she is a woman of science first and foremost. < as lemmas |
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