What it would be like if male scientists were described in the same way as women

'A devout husband and father, Darwin balanced his family duties with the study of the specimes he brought from his travels'

Charles Darwin was among those who received the treatment (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Women scientists frequently suffer being effectively erased from history. Even if they are not, they tend to be subjected to the everyday sexism that undermines the jobs they do.

Now a campaigner has put together a series of tweets describing some of the most famous male scientists ever in the same manner as their female counterparts.

Originally published in Spanish, the author of these short bios, @Daurmith, said: “So, I made a small brouhaha recently in Twitter and I thought I’d share it in English.

“I started to write small bios of famous (male) scientists as they’d be written had they been women.”

He told Buzzfeed: "I wrote the bios as an exercise ‘through the glass’, so to speak. I find it productive, and a bit cathartic, to use women’s tropes on men, à la Hawkeye project. I didn’t want to achieve anything special and honestly thought they would get quickly lost."