Ralph Fiennes Sunshine

“ I know you’ll come carry me out to the Palace of Winds. That’s what I’ve wanted: to walk in such a place with you. With friends, on an earth without maps. ”

“Every night I cut out my heart. But in the morning it was full again.”

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Celebrating Oberlin Women in Science and Medicine

All this month, the Science Library is highlighting the lives, research and medical breakthroughs of Oberlin College affiliated women, with displays at the library’s entrance, social media posts, and photographs of notable women added to the portrait collection on the north wall.  That small collection was male-dominated for decades - it was high time to represent the achievements of scientists and medical professionals who identify as female.  

The recent additions to the portrait wall are June E. Osborn ‘57 (photo above), Joanne Chory ‘77 and Matilda Arabella Evans, who attended Oberlin in the late 1880s, leaving in 1891.

Thanks to Science Library Associate Jennifer Schreiner for creating the elements for the display on the bulletin board.  We invite you to take a look!  The display is summarized on the ObieSciLib Instragram post on March 8.

See also ObieSciLib on Tumblr for a look at the current Oberlin College women of science.  Women in all of the natural science departments regularly publish research articles, numbering over 40 articles in the past four years alone.  Books also have been published recently; see these authors in OBIS: Marta Laskowski, Jillian Scudder, and Lynne Bianchi.  The tradition of scientific achievement and contributing to scientific knowledge continues.

Summer trip 2018: The Clay Castle, Transfagarasan Road, Sighisoara Medieval City and Turda Salt Mine / Romania.

“ I know you’ll come carry me out to the Palace of Winds. That’s what I’ve wanted: to walk in such a place with you. With friends, on an earth without maps. ”

Ralph Fiennes

HAPPY 52nd BIRTHDAY RALPH FIENNES! (12/22/1962 - 12/22/2014)

Today, Ralph Fiennes is 52 years-old. For 23 years now, he has been entertaining us with some of the best movies that we know. Since its very beginning, his career has been a reflection of his exceptional talents and endless abilities, through characters that were complicated, touching, tormented, desperate, romantic, funny, brave or even mad. Today, Ralph still shows that he can take on any part, as long as he believes in it. For all those years he has remained true to himself, making movies not for the pleasure of fame but for the love of acting. Ralph is different from the other stars in the wide world of show business; different in the sense that he is a very special one who’s chosen his own path and who is, above anything, a wonderful human being. His professional choices, always atypical, have made him this incredible actor who eventually turned his movie career into a beautiful mix of shades and lights, of colors and nuances. And that is, after all, the reason why he is such a unique and truly gifted person.

Science Saturday

This week we present Conversations on Chemistry: In Which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments and Plates, written anonymously by the English author Jane Haldimand Marcet (1769-1858). The first edition of the book was published in 1805, with many subsequent editions in both England and the United States. Here in Special Collections we hold an 1809 edition published in New Haven from Sidney’s Press for Increase Cooke & Co., and an 1830 edition published in Harford for Cooke & Co. The 1809 edition has illustrations that are based on drawings by Jane Marcet.

Jane Marcet (maiden name Haldimand) and her husband, Swiss physician Alexander Marcet were very involved in the literary and scientific circles in London. Alexander was a fellow of the  Royal Society, and Jane attended many lectures there with him. Jane Marcet is known for popularizing scientific principles, especially the works of chemist Humphry Davy, whose lectures Jane attended. As is clearly shown by the many reprintings, Jane Marcet’s Conversations on Chemistry was wildly popular. The book was framed as a conversation between a teacher Mrs. B and her two pupils, Emily and Caroline. In the preface to the 1809 edition, Jane Marcet explained she wanted to write a book on chemistry especially to educate women on the subject because it was something that really caught her own interest. Jane wrote:

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