New butterfly named for pioneering 17th-century entomologist Maria Sibylla Merian
Wednesday, December 5, 2018 - 14:30
in Biology & Nature
More than two centuries before initiatives to increase the number of women in STEM fields, 52-year-old Maria Sibylla Merian sailed across the Atlantic on a largely self-funded scientific expedition to document the animals and plants of Dutch Suriname.