| Earlier this month, a new species of shark was named after the late shark scientist Eugenie Clark. Clark was a charismatic and pioneering scientist of the 20th century. I wonder what she would think of our modern, flashy Shark Week. She's quoted as saying that the " 'gangsters of the deep' had gotten a bad rap." [You can also follow Genie The Shark on twitter, named after Eugenie] "They've got big teeth, but then so does your dog," Clark said in her thick New York accent, in a Mote Marine Lab video Clark was born in the '20s to an American father and Japanese mother. She started her work as a scientist at a time when women were actively discouraged in the field, and tensions with Japanese Americans post World War II were high. While typing school and secretarial positions were common postgrad career plans for young women in the 1940s, Clark said: "No, I don't want to be anybody's secretary. I want to do that stuff myself." She set out to get a PhD in marine biology. | 
Twitter
Facebook
