Curiosity Had No Chromosome

I am a woman in science.That statement is quieter than it is radical, but it carries history all the same.It carries every time curiosity had to defend itself, every moment intelligence was second-guessed, every space where excellence from a woman was treated as an anomaly. Yet here I am studying, testing, observing because curiosity never checked for a chromosome before it called my name.Long before me, there were women who refused to disappear. Marie Curie worked with substances that glowed in the dark and dangers no one fully understood. She named the unknown, isolated new elements, and reshaped modern physics and chemistry, becoming the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, and later, the first person to win it twice. Her brilliance was undeniable, even when the world tried to make her invisible. Rosalind Franklin captured the first clear images of DNA, revealing the architecture of life itself. Though recognition came late, her work remains undeniable. Evidence that truth does not disappear simply because a woman spoke it first. Gerty Cori transformed our understanding of how the body uses and stores energy, laying foundations that continue to shape medicine today. In decoding metabolism, she showed that precision, patience, and persistence are scientific virtues. Ones women have always possessed. Barbara McClintock discovered that genes could move, adapt, and surprise, at a time when science insisted they could not. She was doubted for decades, until the world finally admitted what she had known all along: nature does not conform to our comfort. These women worked in pure science, applied science, and health sciences—not as exceptions, but as pioneers. They asked questions they were not encouraged to ask and produced answers the world could not ignore. In doing so, they proved that intelligence is not masculine, discovery is not male, and curiosity has never belonged to one sex.So when I step into a laboratory, a lecture hall, or a field of study, I do not come alone. I come carrying their legacy. I come aware that my presence is both ordinary and revolutionary. I am a woman in science–not to defy nature, but to study it.Not to prove I belong, but because I always have. Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science.We are not new to discovery.We are continuing it.

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