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This was one of my favorite installations at the air and space museum Jordan & I just visited -- a local middle school created a star chart!

Along the top border you can see our friend OBAFGKM -- for more on that and Annie Jump Cannon, check out our episode here:https://starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/e/asterism-annie-jump-cannon-spectral-types/

#astronomy #WomenInStem #Museum #Art #Stars #AstroDon #AnnieJumpCannon #history

Ele Willoughby, PhD 13h ago

Another unknown birthday: Amongst the earliest recorded woman in #mathematics, Hypatia lived during the 3rd century AD in Alexandria, Egypt, which was part of the Roman Empire. She was born at some time between about 350 and 370 and died in 415 C.E. She taught philosophy, #astronomy and mathematics at a Neoplatonist school. She believed in empiricism and natural law. She was the daughter of a 🧵

#sciart #linocut #printmaking #womeninstem #geometry #histsci #astrolabe #mastoArt

Lorena Fernández Álvarez 18h ago

#TalDíaComoHoy en 1898, nace Katharine Burr Blodgett, primera doctorada en Física por Cambridge. Inventó, entre otras muchas cosas, el cristal antirreflectante, utilizado hoy en telescopios, cámaras, parabrisas... Fue la primera mujer contratada como científica en General Electrics. #WomenInSTEM

Project Gutenberg 1d ago

Science history: Sophie Germain, first woman to win France's prestigious 'Grand Mathematics Prize' is snubbed when tickets to award ceremony are 'lost in the mail' — Jan. 9, 1816

By Tia Ghose

https://www.livescience.com/physics-mathematics/mathematics/science-history-sophie-germain-first-woman-to-win-frances-prestigious-grand-mathematics-prize-is-snubbed-when-tickets-to-award-ceremony-are-lost-in-the-mail-jan-9-1816

More about Sophie Germain:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Germain

#books #mathematics #science #womeninstem

Lorena Fernández Álvarez 1d ago

#TalDíaComoHoy nos dejaba Dottie Thomas. Hematóloga conocida como «la madre del trasplante de médula ósea» por los casi 60 años dedicados a esa área mano mano con su marido Edward Donnall Thomas. A pesar de eso, solo él recibió el Nobel junto a Joseph Edward Murray. #WomenInSTEM

Ele Willoughby, PhD 2d ago

The 3rd prompt of #printerSolstice2526 is one so I made a #linocut of the 1st woman to earn a doctorate in science, physicist and professor Laura Maria Caterina Bassi Veratti (née, & known throughout her life as Bassi, 1711-1778). I've shown her surrounded by the sort of state-of-the-art instrumentation she would have used in her lab to investigate electricity: an electrical machine, conductors, an aurora flask, a luminous discharge tube, 🧵 #printmaking #womenInSTEM #histsci #physics #mastoArt

CarveHerName 2d ago

#OnThisDay, 8 Jan 1816, mathematician Sophie Germain wins the grand prize from the Paris Academy of Sciences for her paper on elasticity theory.

#WomenInSTEM #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

Lorena Fernández Álvarez 2d ago

#TalDíaComoHoy en 1927, nace Virginia Norwood. Física y matemática, inventó el primer escáner multiespectral para obtener imágenes de la Tierra desde el espacio. El satélite Landsat 1 y sus sucesores han estado escaneando el planeta gracias al trabajo de la «madre del Landsat». #WomenInSTEM

Ele Willoughby, PhD 3d ago

The next #printerSolstice2526 prompt is ‘one’ so I selected a woman who was often the first: first woman science doctorate, first woman physics professor and first woman member of a scientific academy, the Academy of Sciences at the Institute of Bologna: Laura Bassi (1711-1778).

She was quite famous and there are several portraits of her, usually depicted as Minerva, goddess of wisdom. 🧵

#wip #histsci #linocut #printmaking #womenInSTEM #histsci #LauraBassi #physics #electricity #optics

CarveHerName 3d ago

#OnThisDay, 7 Jan 1939, French physicist Marguerite Perey discovers element 87, which she later names francium. It was the last element to be discovered naturally.

Perey was a student of Maria Skłodowska-Curie. She was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize but never received it.

#WomenInSTEM #ScienceHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons