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Eunice Newton Foote (July 17, 1819 – September 30, 1888) was an American scientist, inventor, and women's rights campaigner.
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...
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.
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.
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...
Jul 17, 2019 · 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.
Aug 23, 2021 · In 1856 Eunice Newton Foote was able to conclude that increasing carbon dioxide levels in Earth’s atmosphere would cause warming. She did not mean for it to be a warning, but perhaps, in the midst of America’s industrial revolution, it should have been.
Jul 12, 2023 · 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 air, dry air, carbon dioxide, oxygen, and hydrogen.
Scientist Eunice Newton Foote, in 1856, was the 1st to speculate that modest increases in CO2 concentration could result in atmospheric warming, and was a contributor to the Smithsonian's weather data project.
Sep 22, 2022 · Roland Jackson (UCL Science & Technology Studies) explores the overlooked history of Eunice Newton Foote, the first scientist to make the connection between high atmospheric carbon dioxide levels and a warmer planet as far back as 1856.
