In search of Eunice Newton Foote - Part 2

Against the backdrop of that era, this announcement could undoubtedly have claimed the last feat. But it didn't happen like that. Although September 1856, an article in the Scientific American newspaper entitled Scientific Ladies praised her a lot.

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Results of this experiment was selected for lecture by 'American Association for the Advancement of Science' (AAAS) conference in September, 1856. She was hesitant to talk about her work among distinguished male scientists at the meeting.

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The paper was read by a young researcher at Smithsonian University named Jose Henry (later an eminent American physicist). He first said about Eunice's work, “Science was of no country, and of no sex. Women don't just embrace beauty requirements, women also embrace truth."

Eunice's paper was entitled, 'Circumstances affecting the heat of Sun Rays'. Published in the 'American Journal of Science and Arts' in November 1856. And a short summary of the research was published in the following year. But even once people forgot her work. No one noticed it. Then after about two hundred years, how does she again appeared in limelight?

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The time was 2011, a retired geologist and Petroleum expert Raymond Sorensen's hobby was digging through old technology books. On that basis, he discovered the special scientific information produced by Eunice in 1856, about a special role of carbon dioxide in climate change. A summary of the paper was published in the journal Annals of Scientific Discovery. In January 2011, Sorensen made this wonderful information public, knowing about the contribution of women in the world of male-dominated scientific research almost 150 years ago. Eunice Foote's name appeared in very few European publications at that time.

Perhaps because she is a woman, perhaps because she did not read the paper at the meeting, or because the person who read did not understand the significance of Eunice's research and did not promote it. For all these reasons, Eunice Foote did not get the first credit for a breakthrough discovery like climate change due to excess carbon dioxide.
In search of Eunice Newton Foote-Part1

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