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1000 portraits of #womeninscience #womeninSTEM from all horizons, all nationalities and all eras. To give them the visibility they deserve. Famous, deceased, in activity, unknown. Chemist, paleontologist, computer scientist, ....

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1000WomeninSTEM @1000womeninstem.bsky.social · Oct 16

Let's try this BlueSky !

A dedicated account to highlight the #womeninSTEM and to give them the visibility they deserve.

Objective: 1,000 portraits of women scientists from all fields, all nationalities and all time periods.

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1000WomeninSTEM @1000womeninstem.bsky.social · 2d

8️⃣8️⃣ Frances Oldham Kelsey (1914-2015) 🇨🇦 #womeninSTEM Canadian pharmacologist and physician, FDA expert who refused marketing authorization for thalidomide in the USA because she felt its safety had not been demonstrated.

thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/f...

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1000WomeninSTEM @1000womeninstem.bsky.social · May 14

8️⃣7️⃣ Emma Hodcroft @firefoxx66.bsky.social
(1986- ) 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 #womeninSTEM Expert in phylogenetics and molecular epidemiology, Emma Hodcroft traces the spread of #SARSCoV2 in real time. Co-founder of @pathoplexus.org

www.horizons-mag.ch/2020/05/15/t...

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1000WomeninSTEM @1000womeninstem.bsky.social · May 6

8️⃣6️⃣ Ruth S. Nussenzweig (1928-2018) #womeninTEM 🇦🇹🇧🇷 Immunologist who paved the way for the development of a malaria vaccine by demonstrating that mice could be protected by immunizing them with attenuated sporozoites.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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1000WomeninSTEM @1000womeninstem.bsky.social · Apr 22

8️⃣5️⃣ Sunetra Gupta (1965- ) 🇮🇳 #womeninSTEM Professor of theoretical epidemiology at Oxford University’s Department of Zoology. with an interest in malaria, HIV, influenza and bacterial meningitis. She is also a best-selling novelist.

www.sunetragupta.com/biography.asp

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1000WomeninSTEM @1000womeninstem.bsky.social · Apr 16

8️⃣4️⃣ Patricia DeLeon (1944- ) 🇯🇲 #womeninSTEM Patricia DeLeon is a geneticist widely recognised for her contributions to andrology. She studies how sperm cells lose their motility, a key factor in male infertility.

www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/pa...

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1000WomeninSTEM @1000womeninstem.bsky.social · Apr 9

8️⃣3️⃣ Céline Bon (1983- ) 🇫🇷 #womeninSTEM Palaeogeneticist at the French National Museum of Natural History @mnhn.fr , Céline is interested in the interactions between culture and genetic diversity and the role of population movements in cultural transitions.

youtu.be/xPxwz7qwPSo?...

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1000WomeninSTEM @1000womeninstem.bsky.social · Apr 2

8️⃣2️⃣ Mary Hunt (1910-1991) 🇺🇸 #womeninSTEM In 1942 Mary Hunt discovered a batch of tainted melons whose mould turned out to be an exceptional strain of Penicillium that produced 200 times more penicillin than Alexander Fleming's strain.

www.sciencehistory.org/stories/disa...

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1000WomeninSTEM @1000womeninstem.bsky.social · Mar 26

8️⃣1️⃣ June Dalziel Almeida (1930-2007) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #womeninSTEM Virologist from Scotland, who became a pioneer in the imaging and identification of viruses. In 1966, together with David Tyrrell, she characterised a new type of virus now known as coronavirus. www.bbc.com/news/uk-scot...

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1000WomeninSTEM @1000womeninstem.bsky.social · Mar 22

8️⃣0️⃣ Narry Kim (1969- ) 🇰🇷 #womeninSTEM Narry Kim is one of South Korea's most eminent researchers. She is internationally recognised for her pioneering work on the biogenesis of microRNAs (small non-coding RNAs).

www.ibiology.org/speakers/v-n...

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1000WomeninSTEM @1000womeninstem.bsky.social · Feb 20

7️⃣9️⃣ Ida Smedley-MacLean (1877-1944) 🇬🇧 #womeninSTEM The first woman admitted to the London Chemical Society. She made a major contribution to the advancement of other women scientists, while gaining a reputation for her work on the role and synthesis of fatty acids.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Mac...

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1000WomeninSTEM @1000womeninstem.bsky.social · Feb 11

Happy International Women & Girls in Science Day 2025

#WomenInScience #womeninSTEM #IDWGS

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1000WomeninSTEM @1000womeninstem.bsky.social · Feb 5

7️⃣8️⃣ Alexandra Gros (1987- ) 🇫🇷 #womeninSTEM @agros.bsky.social Her research focused on the role of hippocampal neurogenesis in learning & memory processes. A tireless fighter against scientific misinformation, now in charge of Communication & Scientific Culture at INSERM

news.cnrs.fr/authors/alex...

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1000WomeninSTEM @1000womeninstem.bsky.social · Feb 3

7️⃣7️⃣ Jackie Yi-Ru Ying (1966- ) 🇹🇼🇺🇸 #womeninSTEM Executive Director of the Institute of Bioengineering & Nanotechnology (IBN) in Singapore & Adjunct Professor of Chemical Engineering at MIT. Her research focuses on nanostructured materials for applications in biomaterials.

www.kff.com/king-faisal-...

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1000WomeninSTEM @1000womeninstem.bsky.social · Jan 30

7️⃣6️⃣ Louise Eisenhardt (1891-1967) 🇺🇸 #womeninSTEM Neuropathologist considered to be one of the leading experts on brain tumour diagnosis. She worked with H. Cushing to set up a tumour registery at Yale University School of Medicine containing more than 2k samples

neurosurgerywins.org/louise-eisen...

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1000WomeninSTEM @1000womeninstem.bsky.social · Jan 28

7️⃣5️⃣ Jewel Plummer Cobb (1924-2017) 🇺🇸 #womeninSTEM American biologist whose crucial research led to the discovery of the effectiveness of the drug methotrexate in treating childhood leukaemia. She served as the 1st female president of California State University, Fullerton

www.jax.org/news-and-ins...

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1000WomeninSTEM @1000womeninstem.bsky.social · Jan 24

7️⃣4️⃣ Shafi Goldwasser (1958- ) 🇮🇱🇺🇸 #womeninSTEM Computer scientist and Professor at MIT. She is recognised for her pioneering contributions in the field of cryptography and computational number theory - 3rd woman to receive the Turing Award in 2012.

www.loreal.com/en/articles/...

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1000WomeninSTEM @1000womeninstem.bsky.social · Jan 22

7️⃣3️⃣ Laura Eme @lauraeme.bsky.social
(1984- ) 🇫🇷 #womeninSTEM Evolutionary biologist that studies the genomic diversity of micro-organisms in order to reconstruct the history of life. She helped to identify a new group of organisms, the Asgard archaea.

emelaura.com

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1000WomeninSTEM @1000womeninstem.bsky.social · Jan 21

#womeninSTEM 😊

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1000WomeninSTEM @1000womeninstem.bsky.social · Jan 20

7️⃣2️⃣ María Blasco Marhuenda (1965- ) 🇪🇸 #womeninSTEM Spanish molecular biologist and currently the Director of the Spanish National Cancer Research Center (CNIO). She is a specialist in the study of telomeres - the ends of chromosomes - and telomerase.

www.worldwomanfoundation.com/news/could-a...

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1000WomeninSTEM @1000womeninstem.bsky.social · Jan 18

7️⃣1️⃣ Jean Marian Purdy (1945-1985) 🇬🇧 #womeninSTEM Pioneer of fertility treatment. On 25/07/1978, the world learned of the birth of the 1st IVF baby: Louise Brown. Jean Purdy was part of the team that contributed to this success, but her name has been forgotten.

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

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1000WomeninSTEM @1000womeninstem.bsky.social · Jan 16

7️⃣0️⃣ Suzanne Eaton (1959-2019) 🇺🇸 #womeninSTEM World-renowned developmental biologist, pioneer in quantitative approaches to tissue morphogenesis in Drosophila. Tragically murdered in 2019.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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1000WomeninSTEM @1000womeninstem.bsky.social · Jan 15

6️⃣9️⃣ Olga Ladyzhenskaya (1922-2004) 🇷🇺 #womeninSTEM Russian mathematician who worked on partial differential equations, fluid dynamics and the finite difference method for the Navier-Stokes equations.

massivesci.com/articles/olg...

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1000WomeninSTEM @1000womeninstem.bsky.social · Jan 14

6️⃣8️⃣ Nicole Le Douarin (1930- ) 🇫🇷 #womeninSTEM Developmental biologist, she made a major contribution to our understanding of the formation of the neural crest by creating chick-quail chimeras. The 1st woman who became perpetual secretary of the Académie des sciences.

embryo.asu.edu/pages/nicole...

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1000WomeninSTEM @1000womeninstem.bsky.social · Jan 12

6️⃣7️⃣ Rose Dieng Kuntz (1956-2008) 🇸🇳 #womeninSTEM Senegalese scientist specialising in artificial intelligence, the first African woman to enter the Ecole Polytechnique in 1976. She worked at INRIA on knowledge sharing on the web.

www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto...

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1000WomeninSTEM @1000womeninstem.bsky.social · Jan 10

6️⃣6️⃣ Dorothy June Sutor (1929-1990) 🇳🇿 #womeninSTEM New Zealand crystallographer. She was the first to establish the existence of C - H ⋯ O hydrogen bonds in crystals in 1962. Her work was wrongly criticised by Jerry Donohue.

www.chemistryworld.com/features/the...

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