Are you familiar with others from history whose contributions are only now being recognized?

Are there still people like Rosalind whose contributions are ignored or attributed to others? Are you familiar with others from history whose contributions are only now being recognized?

If you haven't read The Other Einstein also by Marie Benedict, do so. That was my first read by the author. That book made me so angry, I was talking about it to everyone!

Definitely (thanks, actually, to BookBrowse). There are a number of women who I've read about over the years who played crucial roles in history and science, whose contributions weren't appreciated at the time. There were important females spies during America's Civil War, as well as during WWII. Women were responsible for some of the most important discoveries regarding codebreaking, and for advances in aviation. And I'm sure there are many, many others.

But I think that can be said of men, too. Many have had their advances ignored, or swept under the rug of history, or be credited to others. Franklin's assistant Ray, for example, took one of the most important photos in history (Photo 51), but wasn't recognized as a contributor to the project. His photo was used to construct the model for which the other folks won the Nobel Prize, and he probably should have been included in the award.

There are literally thousands of persons, men, women, white and of color, who have made huge contributions to humanity and have received little or no acknowledgement.
That is why Marie Benedict's (and other's) books about these people are so interesting and important.

I find that women are finally getting their due. We are learning about contributions they have made, usually unrecognized and often there work was claimed by men. Sadly most did not live to see themselves recognized.

There have recently been published many books dealing with the French resistance and particularly the spies who were women and did so much save lives in World War II.
Code Name Helene, Spymistress, A Woman of No Importance, Agent Sonya, Code Name Madeleine, The Alice Network, and one of my very favorite ones, Madame Fourcade's Secret War.

Marie Benedict’s other books often feature women whose contributions were lost like Hedy Lamar and Sarah Churchill

It is easier for women to be recognized today but they still face numerous barriers. I am sure there were numerous women who have not been honored for their achievements.

The Other Einstein , some of the women during WW2 that were in the resistance in Europe, women who flew planes and all the women who were in the factories while the men were at war, many unsung heroines.

Hedy Lamarr was known only as an Austrian-American actress. She was also an inventor who pioneered the technology that would one day form the basis for today's WiFi, GPS, and Bluetooth communication systems.
Bessie Coleman earned her pilot's license from the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale on June 15, 1921, and was the first Black person to earn an international pilot's license. She was an early American civil aviator and the first African-American woman and the first Native American to hold a pilot license.

Yes, absolutely - many women are not highlighted in our history books or taught in our schools. We read The Code Breaker by Isaacson for my other book club in January, and it talked at great length about the contributions of not only Jennifer Doudna but also other women involved in the CRSPR breakthroughs. Rosalind Franklin was mentioned in that book and I was excited to read more about her in this one.

I think that so many authors today are doing an amazing job of uncovering and deeply researching past stories of women, men and events that changed our world and went unnoticed. It is a new sub genre of Historical Fiction that is exposing readers to history that was barely mentioned, completely forgotten or totally ignored. My book club loves these books that make us say...I never knew about that! Well, now we do.

Yes! Currently Arnold Schwarzenegger has been on cable news talking to Russians and letting them know of the lies the Russians are using to justify the war in Ukraine. But the first person that came to mind was Hedy Lamar whose contribution to the Allie’s wasn’t known for many years after World War II.