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Eunice Newton Foote
Eunice Newton Foote was an American scientist, inventor, and women's rights campaigner. She was the first scientist to identify the insulating effect of certain gases and to posit that therefore rising carbon dioxide levels could increase atmospheric temperature and affect climate, a phenomenon now referred to as the greenhouse effect. Born in Connecticut, Foote was raised in New York at the cente…
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science · American scientist and activist (1819–1888) · physicist · climatologist · inventor · women's rights activist · feminist · also Eunice Newton Foote, Eunice Foote, Eunice Newton, Foote
Born 17 July 1819 · Died 30 September 1888 · Q26763822
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2026· 4 entries
Public attention spiked: 3,317 Wikipedia readers in one day, 44.8× the usual 74, with 0 article edits.
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Yahoo: Grondahl: Eunice Newton Foote gets her due as climate science pioneer
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Publishers Weekly: In Conversation: Jen Bryant, Rebecca Donnelly, and Lindsay H. Metcalf on Eunice Newton Foote
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2025· 1 entry
The ichnotaxon Osspecus eunicefooteae, a fossilised worm burrow from the Cretaceous of the UK, was named in honour of Eunice Foote
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2023· 2 entries
Yahoo: Eunice Newton Foote: The scientist and women’s rights activist who planted seed of climate change awareness
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moneycontrol.com: Google Doodle celebrates Eunice Newton Foote who discovered greenhouse effect
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2022· 3 entries
To recognize exceptional scientific achievements in research that focuses on the convergence of Earth and life science
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Contain a description of Foote's methodology
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The American Geophysical Union instituted The Eunice Newton Foote Medal for Earth-Life Science in her honor to recognize outstanding scientific research
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2020· 1 entry
That Elisha filed a patent in 1842 on a thermostatically controlled cooking stove which had been invented by Eunice
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2019· 3 entries
To analyze the questions of priority of Foote's work, as had Hayhoe in 2016
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In his work Exploring Planetary Climate that Foote had made her discoveries proving that moist air produced more warming than dry air, and that variances in air density impacted warming, prior to Tyndall
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Confirmed that Foote's experiments showing that water vapor and CO2 absorb heat occurred three years before Tyndall made a similar claim
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2018· 2 entries
And reported "an examination of the American Journal of Science and Arts (AJS) was conducted, and the original paper [by Foote] was found in the November 1856 issue"
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Was that there was inadequate information to make a determination
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2010· 1 entry
When Sorenson came across a summary of Foote's work in an 1857 volume of The Annual of Scientific Discovery, he was unaware that the full paper had been published
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1984· 1 entry
But noted that biographical data on her was lacking
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1978· 1 entry
In the History of Science Society's international journal Isis
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1976· 1 entry
Historian Sally Gregory Kohlstedt noted Foote's participation as the only woman at the 1857 meeting of the AAAS in her history of that organization
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1969· 1 entry
Those activists formed the Coordinating Committee on Women in the Historical Profession as an affiliate of the American Historical Association, hoping to address historical omissions and eliminate discrimination and recr
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1888· 2 entries
Died 1888-09-30.
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And for almost a hundred years her contributions were unknown, before being rediscovered by women academics in the twentieth century
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1872· 1 entry
And 1873, were back in Washington in 1874, but had returned to New York by 1878
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1868· 2 entries
Attended by many dignitaries, including US President Andrew Johnson
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When Stanton visited her at the patent office
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1865· 1 entry
Elisha was appointed to serve an apprenticeship on the Board of Examiners-in-Chief for the United States Patent and Trademark Office
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1864· 1 entry
Eunice developed a new cylinder-type of paper-making machine
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1861· 1 entry
His seminal work on climate, "The Bakerian Lecture: On the Absorption and Radiation of Heat by Gases and Vapours, and on the Physical Connexion of Radiation, Absorption, and Conduction" was presented as a lecture to the
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1860· 1 entry
On a shoe and boot insert made of a single piece of vulcanized rubber to "prevent the squeaking of boots and shoes"
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1859· 3 entries
And even there, did not make a connection with climate change
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Foote discovered that water vapor and CO2 absorb heat from sunlight
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John Tyndall reported his more sophisticated research, using a Leslie cube and a differential spectrometer, showing that several gases both trapped and emitted infrared thermal radiation rather than sunlight
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1857· 4 entries
Praised her work, claiming that her findings had been "never heretofore proven", although in fact, they confirmed the ideal gas law, published in 1834
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“On a New Source of Electrical Excitation”
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On static electricity in atmospheric gases
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Elisha was awarded a substantial settlement for infringement on the 1842 stove patent
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1856· 1 entry
Published a paper notable for demonstrating the absorption of heat by CO2 and water vapor and hypothesizing that changing amounts of CO2 in the atmosphere would alter the climate
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1844· 1 entry
In a sheriff's sale, Elisha bought the house that the Stanton family moved into in 1847
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1841· 2 entries
In East Bloomfield, Newton married Elisha Foote Jr
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Foote settled in Seneca Falls, New York
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1835· 1 entry
And the fifth child, a daughter named Amanda, took it upon herself to rid the properties of debt and become sole owner to keep the family farm from being sold
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1819· 1 entry
Born 1819-07-17.
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