Raychelle Burks, Ph.D. is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Department of Chemistry at the Doane College and Center for Nanohybrid Functional Materials at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln, a scientific consultant, and one of the hosts of the Reactions web series. In this latest video, she highlights Mary Sherman Morgan, Alice Ball and Rachel Lloyd, three women scientists whose work in the field of chemistry went largely unacknowledged for years.
[…] Dr Raychelle Burks, an analytical chemist in America points out: ‘Science is about facts and people. Science is done by people and it is often done to serve the interests of people. We do laboratory tests, field experiments and computer simulations so that we can understand the world around us and ourselves.’ […]