Eunice Newton Foote, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Eunice Newton Foote

American atmospheric scientist and civil rights advocate

Date of Birth: 17-Jul-1819

Place of Birth: Goshen, Connecticut, United States

Date of Death: 30-Sep-1888

Profession: scientist, physicist, inventor, civil rights advocate, climatologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Eunice Newton Foote (July 17, 1819 – September 30, 1888) was an American scientist, physicist, inventor, and women's rights campaigner from Seneca Falls, New York.
She discovered the process of climate change, predicted changes, and was ignored. She was the first scientist to theorize that changing the proportion of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would change its temperature, in her paper Circumstances affecting the heat of the sun's rays at the American Association for the Advancement of Science conference in 1856.
Perhaps because women were not yet allowed to present papers to AAAS at that time, Professor Joseph Henry of the Smithsonian Institution delivered the paper that identified the research as her work.
Although her experiments did not clearly differentiate between the effect of incident solar radiation and that of long-wave infrared, in the process, she identified the root cause of what we now call the greenhouse effect.