A marathon session of Wikipedia by a group of pioneering women
in science aims to correct the staggering omissions of female
scientists on the reference site.  Friday's event at the Royal
Society, in association with Wikimedia UK, will be a group
"edit-a-thon", using the Royal Society's library of biographies
and studies of famous female scientists, from doctors to
botanists, palaeontologists to physicists.  Professor Uta Frith,
professor in cognitive development at UCL and a fellow of the
Royal Society, wrote in The Huffington Post UK: "It is one of
those pesky facts, that apart from the amazing Marie Curie,
there are few heroines of science. Be honest, how many famous
women scientists can you name?  "In the network I have set up
for high flying women in science we took a quiz set by Rosalind
Franklin Prize winner Eleanor Maguire.  "We did embarrassingly
poorly on this. For example, none of us knew Alexa Canady, the
first female and first black resident in neurosurgery). You too
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