Eunice Newton Foote - Wikipedia
Eunice Newton Foote (July 17, 1819 – September 30, 1888) was an American scientist, inventor, and women's rights campaigner. She was the first scientist to confirm that certain gases warm when exposed to sunlight, and that therefore rising carbon dioxide (CO 2) levels could increase atmospheric temperature and affect climate, a phenomenon now ...
The Woman Who Demonstrated the Greenhouse Effect
Nov 9, 2023 · Eunice Newton Foote showed that carbon dioxide traps the heat of the sun in 1856, beating the so-called father of the greenhouse effect by at least three years. Why was she...
Eunice Newton Foote: The woman who discovered the …
Jul 17, 2023 · Eunice Newton Foote, who discovered the greenhouse effect and was a pivotal figure in women’s rights movements, is the focus of today’s Google doodle.
Hidden Histories: Eunice Newton Foote, The Woman Who ...
Sep 4, 2022 · Eunice Foote, a pioneering scientist and women’s rights activist. Art credited to Catherine Kwon. Image Courtesy of Catherine Kwon. Among the signatures at the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention for women’s rights is the name Eunice Newton Foote.
Happy 200th birthday to Eunice Foote, hidden climate science ...
Born on July 17, 1819, Eunice Newton Foote was an amateur scientist and a women's rights campaigner who was friends with American suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Foote's experiments with atmospheric gases and her insights about past climate were overlooked for more than a century.
Overlooked No More: Eunice Foote, Climate Scientist Lost to ...
Apr 21, 2020 · In the 1850s, Eunice Foote, an amateur scientist and activist for women’s rights, made a remarkable discovery about greenhouse gases that could have helped form the foundation of modern climate...
Eunice Newton Foote’s nearly forgotten discovery | Physics ...
Aug 23, 2021 · Eunice Newton Foote’s nearly forgotten discovery. The scientist, inventor, and women’s rights activist demonstrated the heat-absorbing properties of carbon dioxide and their potential effect on climate three years before John Tyndall. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.6.4.20210823a.
Physics History August 1856 - American Physical Society
In 1856, an American woman named Eunice Newton Foote conducted a series of homespun experiments. She set up 30-inch-long cylinders, each with a thermometer inside, and each filled with different gases and gaseous mixtures — moist …
Understanding Eunice Foote's 1856 experiments: heat ...
Aug 26, 2020 · Eunice Newton Foote (1819–1888) was an American whose scientific work has been rediscovered only in the last decade. 1 Based on published experiments, she suggested that greater amounts of carbon dioxide (CO 2) in the atmosphere would increase Earth's temperature. 2 This statement was made in 1856, five years before John Tyndall (ca 1822 ...
Why We Can't Forget Eunice Foote's Climate Science Work - TIME
Jul 17, 2019 · Eunice Foote discovered the cause of global warming, but history forgot her. That can't happen to women working on climate science today.