[…] Not only did Scottish mathematician, science writer, and polymath Mary Fairfax Somerville (December 26, 1780—November 28, 1872) defy the era’s deep-seated bias against women in science, she was the very reason the word “scientist” was coined: When reviewing her seminal second book, On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences, which Somerville wrote at the age of 54, English polymath and Trinity College master William Whewell was so impressed that he thought it rendered the term “men of …read more […]

No script ideas yet, but I just wanted to point out that the history of Science and Mathematics is replete with stories of iconoclasts and other people appearing out of nowhere to make seminal contributions to science, along with other wild characters Einstein famously worked as a patent office clerk in 1905 when he wrote 4 papers that individually revolutionized their fields. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annus_Mirabilis_papers George Green who discovered "Green's functions", was an autodidact who had a single year of formal schooling http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Green Then there's Ramanujan, who isolated from the rest of the mathematics community basically kickstarted an entire field of study. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramanujan and Evariste Galois the discoverer of Galois Theory who died in a duel, but spent the night before writing his ideas in letters to his friend Auguste Chevalier. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galois Of course sexism still abounds. Jocelyn Bell was famously screwed out of a Nobel Prize for the discovery of pulsars. Her thesis advisor was not neglected. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Bell_Burnell as was Rosalind Franklin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalind_Franklin

I saw the trailer for a french movie about Mozart's Sister: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozart's_Sister Apparently she was very talented but .... From Wikipedia: "In the early days, she sometimes received top billing, and she was noted as an excellent harpsichord player and fortepianist. However, given the views of her parents, prevalent in her society at the time, it became impossible as she grew older for her to continue her career any further."

But let's play around.... What if this is a world ruled by vampires. The human resistance is losing. And the daughter of a renowned general wants to take part in the war. The high council doesn't want her to, says war is a men's thing. But she's been secretly studying the vampires. She finds their weaknesses (which may not be the traditional garlic and silver, the vampires have developed immunity over time, now they need an alloy.) but nobody wants to believe her, nobody pays her attention. And then, of course she single handedly beats a large group of vampires, becoming the de facto leader of the resistance.

Seems like a relatively straightforward biopic to me. Maybe something for the guys who keep making Jane Austen movies (they're running out, weren't there two Pride and Prejudice movies within ten years of each other?). And it certainly seems like a story worth telling, for sure. Maybe you go for a younger audience so little girls will see this and have an intellectual role model.