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ICONS FOR FUTURE SCIENTISTS
The New Indian Express
|February 11, 2026
WOMEN’S work often gets obscured by omission—and science is one such fallow field.a
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Today, the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, presents the most fitting occasion for schools to reverse this trend. Though many may know about Marie Curie’s Nobel in physics or even poet Byron’s daughter Ada Lovelace
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