The Women In Science Archive
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Celebrating Eleven Years of bringing stories of scientific women to light! Our newest book, A History of Women in Psychology and Neuroscience, is now available! www.wisarchive.com
Developmental psychologist Jacqueline Goodnow was born 101 years ago today. She conducted studies on how the perception of a reward's nature affects behavior, and on how cognitive test results differ across cultures, and wrote a series of psych books in the 1970s and 80s.
#WomeninSTEM #PsychSky 🧪
#WomeninSTEM #PsychSky 🧪
November 25, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Developmental psychologist Jacqueline Goodnow was born 101 years ago today. She conducted studies on how the perception of a reward's nature affects behavior, and on how cognitive test results differ across cultures, and wrote a series of psych books in the 1970s and 80s.
#WomeninSTEM #PsychSky 🧪
#WomeninSTEM #PsychSky 🧪
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Physics has a reputation for being dominated by men, especially a century ago, as quantum physics was just being invented – but there have been so many women who helped shaped the field since its inception
The forgotten women of quantum physics
Physics has a reputation for being dominated by men, especially a century ago, as quantum physics was just being invented – but there have been so many women who helped shaped the field since its inception
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November 25, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Physics has a reputation for being dominated by men, especially a century ago, as quantum physics was just being invented – but there have been so many women who helped shaped the field since its inception
New inductee to the Archive! Today we tell the story of entomologist Elizabeth Bernays, who was an expert on locust feeding cycles and the originator of the tritrophic model of co-evolution between plants, herbivores, and predators.
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#WomenInSTEM #Entomology #BugSky 🧪🐛
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#WomenInSTEM #Entomology #BugSky 🧪🐛
Outwitting the Predators: Elizabeth Bernays and the Hectic Lives of Plant-Eating Insects.
Being a bug is a chancy thing. From the moment your egg is laid, you are the target of a vast array of predators hungry for your gushy, nutritive innards. Chances are, you will never make it out of yo...
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November 24, 2025 at 7:28 PM
New inductee to the Archive! Today we tell the story of entomologist Elizabeth Bernays, who was an expert on locust feeding cycles and the originator of the tritrophic model of co-evolution between plants, herbivores, and predators.
tinyurl.com/59r3sfep
#WomenInSTEM #Entomology #BugSky 🧪🐛
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#WomenInSTEM #Entomology #BugSky 🧪🐛
Wishing a happy 82nd birthday to biochemist Margaret Tolbert, whose research included studies of signaling within the liver and the interactions of drugs with it, and who in 1996 became the first Black woman to direct a Department of Energy lab.
#WomenInSTEM #ChemSky #BioSky 🧪⚛️
#WomenInSTEM #ChemSky #BioSky 🧪⚛️
November 24, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Wishing a happy 82nd birthday to biochemist Margaret Tolbert, whose research included studies of signaling within the liver and the interactions of drugs with it, and who in 1996 became the first Black woman to direct a Department of Energy lab.
#WomenInSTEM #ChemSky #BioSky 🧪⚛️
#WomenInSTEM #ChemSky #BioSky 🧪⚛️
Wishing a happy 91st birthday to Rita Colwell, the institutional wizard who, as the 1st woman director of the NSF and 1st woman president of the American Society for Microbiology has instituted large structural changes to help American science overcome its biases.
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#WomenInSTEM
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#WomenInSTEM
Steering the Future of Women in Science: The Institutional Wizardry of Microbiologist Rita Colwell.
One of the exciting and daunting things about doing science in the Twenty-First century is the sheer number of competencies it demands. It is no longer enough to be a person with a particular flair f...
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November 23, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Wishing a happy 91st birthday to Rita Colwell, the institutional wizard who, as the 1st woman director of the NSF and 1st woman president of the American Society for Microbiology has instituted large structural changes to help American science overcome its biases.
tinyurl.com/yk2zf339
#WomenInSTEM
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#WomenInSTEM
Yesterday was the 77th birthday of mathematician Raman Parimala, who developed the first example of a non-trivial quadratic space over an affine plane and has since dug into Clifford algebras, Witt groups, and the Grothendieck-Serre Conjecture.
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#WomenInSTEM #MathSky 🧮
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#WomenInSTEM #MathSky 🧮
Expectations Defied: The Algebraic Journey of Raman Parimala
If you have been reading this series over the years, you’re used to a particular narrative sequence: (1) Brilliant woman researcher establishes herself, with a good reputation and a solid position at ...
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November 22, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Yesterday was the 77th birthday of mathematician Raman Parimala, who developed the first example of a non-trivial quadratic space over an affine plane and has since dug into Clifford algebras, Witt groups, and the Grothendieck-Serre Conjecture.
tinyurl.com/yckhjhav
#WomenInSTEM #MathSky 🧮
tinyurl.com/yckhjhav
#WomenInSTEM #MathSky 🧮
Mathematician Louise Duffield Cummings was born 155 years ago today. A researcher on vector spaces with trilinear maps and hexagonal systems, she was also a staple presence at Vassar college for three and a half decades in the early twentieth century.
#WomenInSTEM #MathSky 🧮
#WomenInSTEM #MathSky 🧮
November 21, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Mathematician Louise Duffield Cummings was born 155 years ago today. A researcher on vector spaces with trilinear maps and hexagonal systems, she was also a staple presence at Vassar college for three and a half decades in the early twentieth century.
#WomenInSTEM #MathSky 🧮
#WomenInSTEM #MathSky 🧮
Civil engineer Olive Dennis was born 140 years ago today- as a service engineer for the B & O Railroad she introduced reclining seats, air conditioned cars, dimmable ceiling lights, stain resistant upholstery, and individual window vents, all of which became industry standards.
#WomenInSTEM
#WomenInSTEM
November 20, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Civil engineer Olive Dennis was born 140 years ago today- as a service engineer for the B & O Railroad she introduced reclining seats, air conditioned cars, dimmable ceiling lights, stain resistant upholstery, and individual window vents, all of which became industry standards.
#WomenInSTEM
#WomenInSTEM
Wishing a happy 76th birthday to Brazilian plant chemist Vanderlan da Silva Bolzani, whose career has included plant peptide research, the creation of a green lab for bioassaying and biosynthesis, and advocacy for Brazilian biodiversity.
#WomenInSTEM #ChemSky #PlantSky 🧪⚕️⚛️
#WomenInSTEM #ChemSky #PlantSky 🧪⚕️⚛️
November 19, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Wishing a happy 76th birthday to Brazilian plant chemist Vanderlan da Silva Bolzani, whose career has included plant peptide research, the creation of a green lab for bioassaying and biosynthesis, and advocacy for Brazilian biodiversity.
#WomenInSTEM #ChemSky #PlantSky 🧪⚕️⚛️
#WomenInSTEM #ChemSky #PlantSky 🧪⚕️⚛️
Neurorscience legend Edith Graef McGeer was born 102 years ago today. She was a key figure in the great neurotransmitter race of the 1960s, and went on to do groundbreaking work on the complement system's role in Alzheimer's.
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#WomenInSTEM #NeuroSky #MedSky #ChemSky 🧪🧠
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#WomenInSTEM #NeuroSky #MedSky #ChemSky 🧪🧠
Edith Graef McGeer, the Great Neurotransmitter Race, and a Glimpse towards the End of Alzheimer’s.
The brain can be its own worst enemy. In a host of those diseases, the merest whisper of which is enough to send a streak of black dread through a formerly happy family, the instigator is not a virus,...
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November 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Neurorscience legend Edith Graef McGeer was born 102 years ago today. She was a key figure in the great neurotransmitter race of the 1960s, and went on to do groundbreaking work on the complement system's role in Alzheimer's.
tinyurl.com/27mn3npx
#WomenInSTEM #NeuroSky #MedSky #ChemSky 🧪🧠
tinyurl.com/27mn3npx
#WomenInSTEM #NeuroSky #MedSky #ChemSky 🧪🧠
Mathematician Ruth Aaronson Bari was born 108 years ago today. After surrendering her grad school position to make room for returning WW2 soldiers, she did not resume her career until the age of 47, after which she was widely recognized for her work on chromatic polynomials.
#WomenInSTEM #MathSky 🧮
#WomenInSTEM #MathSky 🧮
November 17, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Mathematician Ruth Aaronson Bari was born 108 years ago today. After surrendering her grad school position to make room for returning WW2 soldiers, she did not resume her career until the age of 47, after which she was widely recognized for her work on chromatic polynomials.
#WomenInSTEM #MathSky 🧮
#WomenInSTEM #MathSky 🧮
Ketayun Dinshaw would have been 82 years old today. For decades, she was a driving force behind the modernization of cancer treatment in India, focusing on new radiation techniques and integrated team approaches. Sadly, she passed away in 2011 at the age of just 67.
#WomenInSTEM #MedSky #Cancer ⚕️🧪
#WomenInSTEM #MedSky #Cancer ⚕️🧪
November 16, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Ketayun Dinshaw would have been 82 years old today. For decades, she was a driving force behind the modernization of cancer treatment in India, focusing on new radiation techniques and integrated team approaches. Sadly, she passed away in 2011 at the age of just 67.
#WomenInSTEM #MedSky #Cancer ⚕️🧪
#WomenInSTEM #MedSky #Cancer ⚕️🧪
New inductee! Today we examine the complicated legacy of Dr. Bethenia Owens-Adair, who opened the gates for women to practice medicine and gain the vote in Oregon, but also devoted the end of her life to the cause of eugenics. Here is her story.
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#WomenInSTEM #MedSky ⚕️
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#WomenInSTEM #MedSky ⚕️
Of Her Time: Bethenia Owens-Adair, Pioneer Doctor & Devoted Eugenicist.
The American West in the mid 19th century made profound demands on all those fated to experience it. The cost for even momentary lapses of vigilance was often death, and the people raised under the in...
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November 15, 2025 at 3:45 PM
New inductee! Today we examine the complicated legacy of Dr. Bethenia Owens-Adair, who opened the gates for women to practice medicine and gain the vote in Oregon, but also devoted the end of her life to the cause of eugenics. Here is her story.
tinyurl.com/436n22yf
#WomenInSTEM #MedSky ⚕️
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#WomenInSTEM #MedSky ⚕️
Ichthyologist Fang Fang Kullander would have been 63 years old today. She travelled the globe for her taxonomical studies of freshwater fish and her work with Fishbase, but passed away at the age of 47 in 2010 from gall duct cancer.
#WomenInSTEM #Ichthyology #FishSky #BioSky 🧪🐟
#WomenInSTEM #Ichthyology #FishSky #BioSky 🧪🐟
November 14, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Ichthyologist Fang Fang Kullander would have been 63 years old today. She travelled the globe for her taxonomical studies of freshwater fish and her work with Fishbase, but passed away at the age of 47 in 2010 from gall duct cancer.
#WomenInSTEM #Ichthyology #FishSky #BioSky 🧪🐟
#WomenInSTEM #Ichthyology #FishSky #BioSky 🧪🐟
Dorothea Erxleben, the first European woman to earn a modern Medical Degree, was born 310 years ago today. The German medical establishment quickly closed ranks after, and it would be over a century until the next woman was given one.
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#WomenInSTEM #MedSky 🧪⚕️
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#WomenInSTEM #MedSky 🧪⚕️
The Last of the Women Physicians: Dorothea Leporin Erxleben.
Prior to the eighteenth century, the answer to the question, ‘Who was allowed to practise medicine?’ was relatively simple: just about anybody. While those who attended university were given a theory-...
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November 13, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Dorothea Erxleben, the first European woman to earn a modern Medical Degree, was born 310 years ago today. The German medical establishment quickly closed ranks after, and it would be over a century until the next woman was given one.
tinyurl.com/bd2hw56u
#WomenInSTEM #MedSky 🧪⚕️
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#WomenInSTEM #MedSky 🧪⚕️
Micropalaeontologist Irene Crespin was born 129 years ago today. The author of some ninety papers, she nonetheless received half the pay of her male colleagues. She was a specialist in the foraminifera of the Indo-Pacific region, working until her mandatory retirement in 1961
#WomenInSTEM #PaleoSky
#WomenInSTEM #PaleoSky
November 12, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Micropalaeontologist Irene Crespin was born 129 years ago today. The author of some ninety papers, she nonetheless received half the pay of her male colleagues. She was a specialist in the foraminifera of the Indo-Pacific region, working until her mandatory retirement in 1961
#WomenInSTEM #PaleoSky
#WomenInSTEM #PaleoSky
Neuroscientist Marian Cleeves Diamond was born 99 years ago today - her studies of how enriched environments can stimulate changes in brain structure of the 1960s gifted us a new, dynamic picture of the brain and its growth.
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#WomenInSTEM #NeuroSky 🧪🧠
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#WomenInSTEM #NeuroSky 🧪🧠
Beyond Nature Vs. Nurture: Marian Cleeves Diamond and Leda Cosmides
In 1964, two publications announced the beginning of two roads out of the centuries-long quagmire represented by the Nature Versus Nurture debate among philosophers, psychologists, and social theorist...
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November 11, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Neuroscientist Marian Cleeves Diamond was born 99 years ago today - her studies of how enriched environments can stimulate changes in brain structure of the 1960s gifted us a new, dynamic picture of the brain and its growth.
tinyurl.com/ycxjrh9t
#WomenInSTEM #NeuroSky 🧪🧠
tinyurl.com/ycxjrh9t
#WomenInSTEM #NeuroSky 🧪🧠
New post! Today we celebrate the long life and work of seismologist Inge Lehmann, whose mathematical modeling of the 1929 Murchison earthquake led to her discovery of Earth's solid inner core. Here is her story!
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#WomenInSTEM #EarthScience #Seismology 🧪
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#WomenInSTEM #EarthScience #Seismology 🧪
Core Principles: The Life and Work of Seismologist Inge Lehmann.
At 10:17 in the morning on June 17, 1929, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake shook New Zealand’s Murchison region, causing landslides that claimed seventeen lives, and sending seismic P-waves throughout the E...
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November 7, 2025 at 2:52 PM
New post! Today we celebrate the long life and work of seismologist Inge Lehmann, whose mathematical modeling of the 1929 Murchison earthquake led to her discovery of Earth's solid inner core. Here is her story!
tinyurl.com/yfm6mua2
#WomenInSTEM #EarthScience #Seismology 🧪
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#WomenInSTEM #EarthScience #Seismology 🧪
Psychologist Helen Thompson Woolley was born 151 years ago today. She was a pioneer in the study of intelligence and gender, whose work challenged the gender assumptions of the 19th century while setting a new standard for comparative psych testing.
#WomenInSTEM #PsychSky 🧠
#WomenInSTEM #PsychSky 🧠
November 7, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Psychologist Helen Thompson Woolley was born 151 years ago today. She was a pioneer in the study of intelligence and gender, whose work challenged the gender assumptions of the 19th century while setting a new standard for comparative psych testing.
#WomenInSTEM #PsychSky 🧠
#WomenInSTEM #PsychSky 🧠
Wishing a happy 87th birthday to chemist Gloria Long Anderson, who for decades has employed Fluorine-19 NMR as a means of probing a litany of reactions of interest to her. For over half a century, she has been a tentpole figure at Morris Brown College.
#WomenInSTEM #BlackWomenInSTEM #ChemSky 🧪⚛️
#WomenInSTEM #BlackWomenInSTEM #ChemSky 🧪⚛️
November 5, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Wishing a happy 87th birthday to chemist Gloria Long Anderson, who for decades has employed Fluorine-19 NMR as a means of probing a litany of reactions of interest to her. For over half a century, she has been a tentpole figure at Morris Brown College.
#WomenInSTEM #BlackWomenInSTEM #ChemSky 🧪⚛️
#WomenInSTEM #BlackWomenInSTEM #ChemSky 🧪⚛️
Janaki Ammal was born 128 years ago today! A legend of botanical genetics, she studied how polyploidy plays into the resilience of agricultural crops, compiled a sprawling chromosomal atlas of plants, and fought for the preservation of India's natural legacy.
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#WomenInSTEM
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#WomenInSTEM
Janaki Ammal And the Fight for India’s Botanical Future.
Caste. Race. Gender. These were the three categories that, in early twentieth century Madras, combined to determine the boundaries of an individual’s potential. Being of an undesirable categorizat...
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November 4, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Janaki Ammal was born 128 years ago today! A legend of botanical genetics, she studied how polyploidy plays into the resilience of agricultural crops, compiled a sprawling chromosomal atlas of plants, and fought for the preservation of India's natural legacy.
tinyurl.com/2j9hxmjb
#WomenInSTEM
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#WomenInSTEM
Wishing a happy 42nd birthday to Lithuanian neuroscientist Urtė Neniškytė, who has spent her career identifying interactions between the immune and nervous system, and investigating the molecular pathways behind neural pruning!
#WomenInSTEM #NeuroSky 🧠🧪
#WomenInSTEM #NeuroSky 🧠🧪
November 2, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Wishing a happy 42nd birthday to Lithuanian neuroscientist Urtė Neniškytė, who has spent her career identifying interactions between the immune and nervous system, and investigating the molecular pathways behind neural pruning!
#WomenInSTEM #NeuroSky 🧠🧪
#WomenInSTEM #NeuroSky 🧠🧪
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Edith Clarke, 1st woman MS in electrical engineering @ MIT, 1st professional female electrical engineer in US. Worked in #Turkey. 1st woman professor of electrical engineering @ Uni of Texas #Austin. Specialised in electrical power system analysis. d. 29 Oct 1959 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_C...
October 29, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Edith Clarke, 1st woman MS in electrical engineering @ MIT, 1st professional female electrical engineer in US. Worked in #Turkey. 1st woman professor of electrical engineering @ Uni of Texas #Austin. Specialised in electrical power system analysis. d. 29 Oct 1959 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_C...
Physicist Laura Bassi was born 314 years ago today. Her thesis defense in 1732 was a major social event which led to her getting hired by the University of Bologna as a paid lecturer. Here is her story!
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#WomenInSTEM #Physics 🧪
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#WomenInSTEM #Physics 🧪
Water, Fire, and Lightning: The Life of Laura Bassi, the First Woman Professor of Science.
It's April of 1732, and the hot ticket in Bologna is not an opera, a play, or a beheading, but rather that most mundane of things: a lengthy thesis defense, in Latin. Routine stuff, except this time ...
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October 29, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Physicist Laura Bassi was born 314 years ago today. Her thesis defense in 1732 was a major social event which led to her getting hired by the University of Bologna as a paid lecturer. Here is her story!
tinyurl.com/4jyxuttr
#WomenInSTEM #Physics 🧪
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#WomenInSTEM #Physics 🧪
Marjory Warren, the founder of modern geriatric medicine, was born 128 years ago today. In the early 1940s she wrote a series of papers calling for the creation of the field, and founded the Medical Society for the Care of the Elderly in 1947, leading to NHS adoption in the 50s
#WomenInSTEM #MedSky
#WomenInSTEM #MedSky
October 28, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Marjory Warren, the founder of modern geriatric medicine, was born 128 years ago today. In the early 1940s she wrote a series of papers calling for the creation of the field, and founded the Medical Society for the Care of the Elderly in 1947, leading to NHS adoption in the 50s
#WomenInSTEM #MedSky
#WomenInSTEM #MedSky