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Nina Baker @ninabake2.bsky.social · 13h

Pennington was one of the early women pioneers in chemical engineering mentioned in my book. Anyone who wants a pdf of it, please DM me with an email address.

Cover of history of women in chemical engineering book

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The Women In Science Archive @wisarchive.bsky.social · 14h

Chemist and food scientist Mary Pennington was born 153 years ago today. Her research into food spoilage led to her design of refrigeration cars for trains, and to her key role in WWII as an advisor in food transport methods for the army.

#WomenInSTEM #ChemSky #FoodScience

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The Women In Science Archive @wisarchive.bsky.social · 1d

Indian cancer researcher Satyavati Sirsat was born 100 years ago today. She founded the nation's first electron microscopy lab devoted to cancer research, specializing in the oral cancers caused by paan and tobacco chewing, publishing extensively in her half century career.

#WomenInSTEM #BioSky 🧪

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The Women In Science Archive @wisarchive.bsky.social · 3d

Wishing a happy 91st birthday to biochemist Mahtaab Bamji, who studied the biochemistry of riboflavin deficiency and used that to develop early detection methods that she employed throughout India, and created other tests to detect vitamin deficiencies in women and children.

#WomenInSTEM #BioSky 🧪

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The Women In Science Archive @wisarchive.bsky.social · 5d

Wishing a happy 92nd birthday to mathematician Mary Lovenia Deconge Watson, the first Black woman to teach at Loyola University, and an educational reformer whose department at Southern University earned national recognition as a Model Department.

#WomenInSTEM #MathSky 🧮

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An Ascending Arc: The Educator’s Journey of Mathematician Lovenia Deconge Watson

In one sense, the story of Lovenia Deconge Watson (b. 1933) is the story of thousands of bright young Black women, born in the South in the 1930s, exhibiting gifts early on and struggling through a my...

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The Women In Science Archive @wisarchive.bsky.social · 8d

Polymath Elise Otté was born 207 years ago today. She began her career as a linguist specializing in Icelandic and Old English before switching to science, where she became known for her translations of the work of Alexander von Humboldt into English.

#WomenInSTEM #Linguistics #Nature

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The Women In Science Archive @wisarchive.bsky.social · 12d

Ichthyologist Margaret Mary Smith was born 109 years ago today. Over her career, she produced some 2000 scientific illustrations of fish, was the co-author of 1945's The Sea Fishes of South Africa, wrote some 500 papers, and discovered some 370 species of fish.

#WomenInSTEM #Ichthyology #Fish 🧪🐟

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The Women In Science Archive @wisarchive.bsky.social · 13d

Wishing a happy 70th birthday to psychologist Vindhya Undurti, who has spent her career researching the mental toll taken by rigid gender roles and the patterns of domestic emotional and physical abuse and human trafficking they give rise to.

#WomenInSTEM #PsychSky 🧠

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The Women In Science Archive @wisarchive.bsky.social · 14d

And, hey, cool fact - Sitterly is also one of the 130 or so figures you'll meet in our History of Women in Astronomy and Space Exploration! With Christmas around the corner and all......

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The Women In Science Archive @wisarchive.bsky.social · 14d

Astronomer Charlotte Sitterly was born 127 years ago today. Her spectroscopic studies were globally well-regarded and are still referenced, she was the first person to discover technetium from a natural source, and she wrote several books on stellar spectra.

#WomenInSTEM #AstroSky 🧪🔭

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The Women In Science Archive @wisarchive.bsky.social · 15d

Brazilian obstetrician and gynecologist Ermelinda de Vasconcelos was born 159 years ago today. She was the first woman doctor to receive a degree in Rio de Janeiro, presided over some 10,000 births during her career, and was a founding figure of Brazilian feminism.

#WomenInSTEM #MedSky ⚕️

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The Women In Science Archive @wisarchive.bsky.social · 16d

American surgeon Emeline Cleveland was born 196 years ago today. She was the dean of the medical school at the Woman's College of Philadelphia, and instrumental in developing a professional training course for nurses there. She passed away at the age of just 49.

#WomenInSTEM #MedSky 🧪⚕️

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The Women In Science Archive @wisarchive.bsky.social · 17d

Wishing a happy 93rd birthday to Indian pathologist and cytologist Usha Kehar Luthra, who for decades devoted herself to developing screening and services for cervical and oral cancer patients in India, training two generations of cytopathologists.

#WomenInSTEM #MedSky #Biology 🧪⚕️

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The Women In Science Archive @wisarchive.bsky.social · 18d

Wishing a happy 94th birthday to plant geneticist Dolores Ramirez. Her career was devoted to studying diseases and genetic conditions that affected food crops in the Philippines, and was awarded the status of National Scientist there in 1998.

#WomenInSTEM #BioSky #Biology #PlantBiology 🧪🌱

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The Women In Science Archive @wisarchive.bsky.social · 19d

Ruth Gordon Schnapp was born 99 years ago today - she was California's first licensed woman structural engineer, and a specialist in the field of earthquake-proofing structures, working particularly on increasing the safety of schools and hospitals.

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#WomenInSTEM #Engineering

Engineering at the Epicenter: Ruth Gordon Schnapp, California's First Woman Structural Engineer.

In the year 1933, the Long Beach Earthquake bore down on Southern California with the fury of revelation. At 6.4, it was not the largest earthquake to ever hit the state, but it left behind a shockin...

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The Women In Science Archive @wisarchive.bsky.social · 20d

Wishing a happy 72nd birthday to Dr. Jame Mulemwa, the chemist who was for 8 years the chairperson of Uganda's Petroleum Authority, and before that worked as deputy chairperson for the Education Service Commission to improve the state of science education.

#WomenInSTEM #ChemSky 🧪

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The Women In Science Archive @wisarchive.bsky.social · 21d

Dr. Banoo Coyaji was born 108 years ago today. During her 55 years as Chief Medical Officer at King Edward Memorial Hospital, she was a tireless advocate for Family Planning in the face of India's population explosion, and for more rigorous women's health education.

#WomenInSTEM #MedSky ⚕️

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The Women In Science Archive @wisarchive.bsky.social · 22d

Louise Boyd was born 138 years ago today. She used her gold mine inheritance to fund a series of scientific expeditions to Greenland in the 1930s to record the varieties of botanical life there, then carried out an extensive ethnographic study of Eastern Europe.

#WomenInSTEM #Botany 🌱🧪

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The Women In Science Archive @wisarchive.bsky.social · 23d

Anna Winlock was born 168 years ago today. She was one of the first generation of human computers at the Harvard Observatory, and a key player in the 9th magnitude international project, as well as a calculator of asteroid trajectories.

#WomenInSTEM #AstroSky #HistSci 🧪🔭

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The Women In Science Archive @wisarchive.bsky.social · 26d

Nobel laureate Irène Joliot-Curie was born 128 years ago today. She and her husband co-discovered artificial radiation in 1934, for which they were awarded the Nobel Prize. She was also the first woman to become a minister in France.

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#WomenInSTEM #ChemSky #Physics 🧪

Of Artificial Radiation and Natural Genius: The Chemistry of Irène Joliot-Curie

Radioactivity is a great thing. Terrible, as they say, but great. The medical applications of radioactively tagged molecules, as Rosalyn Yalow demonstrated, are legion, and have saved millions of live...

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The Women In Science Archive @wisarchive.bsky.social · 27d

Wishing a happy 81st birthday to Hiriyakkanavar Ila, who for years was a trailblazer in the creation of new organosulfur synthons to use in reaction and structure analysis, and in the study of small molecule heterocycles. Hoping it is a day of celebration and science!

#WomenInSTEM #ChemSky 🧪⚛️

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The Women In Science Archive @wisarchive.bsky.social · 28d

Wishing a happy 83rd birthday to NASA mathematician and researcher Christine Darden, who specialized in the analysis of supersonic noise and research into its reduction. She was the first Black woman at NASA to reach Senior Executive Service status.

#WomenInSTEM #NASA #MathSky 🧪🚀

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The Women In Science Archive @wisarchive.bsky.social · 29d

Entomologist Adelina Barrion was born 74 years ago today. She was dubbed the Spider Woman of the Philippines for her years of research into the genetics of spiders there, though her studies encompassed other species as well. She passed away in 2010.

#WomenInSTEM #Entomology #Arachnids 🧪

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The Women In Science Archive @wisarchive.bsky.social · Sep 8

Wishing a happy 92nd birthday to Hoàng Xuân Sính, the first woman mathematics professor in Vietnam, and a specialist in 2-groups. She founded the first private university in Vietnam, and completed her thesis by correspondence during the Vietnam War.

#WomenInSTEM #MathSky #HistSci 🧮

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The Women In Science Archive @wisarchive.bsky.social · Sep 4

Margaret S Collins was born 103 years ago today. She was the first Black woman to earn a PhD in entomology, and devoted her career to investigating the extraordinary biology of termites - their resistances, defenses, behavior, and ecology.

#WomenInSTEM #Entomology #HistSci 🐛

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