The British physicist making women scientists visible online


Wade poses for a photograph following an interview with AFP, outside of The Royal School of Mines in London, on April 5, 2023. At night, she writes biographies on Wikipedia about women researchers like her who don’t have an online presence. — AFP

LONDON: By day, Jessica Wade spends her time in a laboratory at Imperial College London surrounded by spectrometers, oscilloscopes – and men.

At night, she writes biographies on Wikipedia about women researchers like her who don’t have an online presence.

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