11/7/1867 — b. Maria Skłodowska (Marie Curie), Polish physicist, chemist, professor. Pioneer researcher of polonium, radium + radioactivity. First wmn prof, U of Paris; first person awarded 2 Nobel Prizes, physics + chemistry. Many honorary sci, med + law degrees #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #HistSci

11/6/1894 — b. Opal Kunz, American aviatrix, feminist, New York socialite. Completed several well-publicized flights, and encouraged women to become pilots. Charter member and the first president of the seminal women aviators’ organization, the Ninety-Nines #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #aviators

11/5/1833 — b. Georgeanna Woolsey, American nursing leader, educator, author. Civil War Union nurse; asst superintendent, US Army hosp, Portsmouth Grove, RI. Co-founder, Connecticut Training Sch for Nurses; wrote 2nd nursing manual published in the US #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #HistNursing #MedSky

11/4/1853 — b. Anna Bayerová, Czechoslovak physician. The second woman to become a medical doctor in Czechoslovakia (1881); the first official female physician in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Wrote a seminal book on the topic of women as physicians (1923) #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #HistMed #MedSky

11/3/1914 — Mary Phelps Jacob, American inventor, is issued a patent for the backless brassiere by the U.S. Patent Office for a device that is lightweight, soft + separates the breasts. Her design was not the first bra, just the first bra to be patented #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #IP #patents

10/31/1832 — b. Mary Ann Cotton, English serial killer, nurse, housekeeper. Britain’s most prolific known female #serialkiller; convicted + hanged for the murder of her stepson (1873). May have poisoned up to 21 persons; likely killed 3 of 4 husbands #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #Halloween #DarkAngel

The Largest Witchcraft Collection in the U.S. | Cornell Library’s Division of Rare + Manuscript Collections holds 3,000+ titles in their Witchcraft Collection rmc.library.cornell.edu/witchcraftco... #Halloween #womenshistory #witches #witchcraft #art #history

10/30/1889 — b. Anne-Marie Durand-Wever, German-American physician and birth control pioneer. Gynecologist; co-founder of Pro Familia, the German branch of the International Planned Parenthood Federation #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #HistMed #MedSky

10/29/1908 — b. Louise Bates Ames, American child psychologist, author. Renowned pioneer child development researcher; educated parents + teachers about the rhythms of child behavior. Wrote/co-wrote syndicated newspaper column + many best-selling books #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #HistSci #PsychHist

10/28/1816 — b. Mary Frame Thomas, American physician, reformer, suffrage leader, orator. The first woman admitted to the Indiana Medical Society; early female member of the American Medical Association. President of the American Woman Suffrage Assn(1880) #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #HistMed #MedSky

10/27/1931 — b. Nawal El Saadawi, Egyptian physician, psychiatrist, sociologist, feminist, author and journalist. Egyptian public health physician; global #womensrights speaker, militant Arab women’s issues writer. Widely translated contemporary Egyptian writer #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #HistMed

10/24/1896 — b. Marjorie Stewart Joyner, American cosmetologist, inventor, civil rights activist. The first Af-Am woman to receive a U.S. patent; invented a permanent wave machine that would set hair for days. Collaborated with Eleanor Roosevelt #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #HistSci #woc #patents

🎉 Congratulations to UC Berkeley biostatistician Jingshen Wang, who has been named a 2026 Emerging Woman Leader in Data Science by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics! 🏅 https://ow.ly/M7eU50Xh9nJ #DataScience #Statistics #Biostatistics #UCBerkeley #WomenInSTEM

10/23/1889 — b. Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, German-American psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, author. Pioneer of psychotherapeutic treatment of psychosis; innovative treatment of schizophrenics & manic-depressive disorders. “Principles of Intensive Psychotherapy” (1950) #womenshistory #WomeninSTEM #PsychHist

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10/22/1875 — b. Harriet Chalmers Adams, American explorer, photographer, author, lecturer. The foremost woman explorer (early 20th c); traveled Asia, S. America + S. Pacific; contributor, Natl Geographic(1907-35). Co-founder, Society of Women Geographers(1925-33) #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #HistSci

Elsie Widdowson FRS specialised in the scientific analysis of food, and revolutionised the way we think about nutrition. Find out more about her work on our blog: #WomenInSTEM royalsociety.org/blog/2020/01...

🌊 Delighted to share that our first-ever #GirlsintoOceanScience event is now fully booked! We have 93 girls registered to join us at the @marine-station.bsky.social on Friday, 31st October. www.plymouth.ac.uk/whats-on/gir... #GiOS #MarineScience #WomenInSTEM #UoP🧪🌍🦑

10/20/1847 — Elizabeth Blackwell’s application to medical school is accepted after previously being denied admission to 29 medical schools. She was the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States + the first woman on the U.K. Medical Register #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #HistMed

10/19/1894 — b. Lois Meek Stolz, American psychologist, author, professor. Psychology researcher; focus edu, child/sex-role development + parent/child relations. Distinguished Contribution to Psychology Award, American Psychological Association (1967) #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #PsychHist #HistSci

10/17/1720 — b. Marie Geneviève Charlotte Thiroux d’ Arconville, French scientist, author, translator. Chemist, anatomist, scientific writer, poet, novelist; she documented her research on putrefaction in her essay on "The History of Putrefaction"(1766) #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #HistSci #BOTD

10/16/1915 — b. Nancy Bird Walton, Australian aviator, philanthropist. The “Angel of the Outback”; founder, Australian Women Pilots Assn; the first female pilot in Australia to carry passengers (1935), operated an air ambulance in the outback of New South Wales #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #aviation

10/15/1831 — b. Isabella Bird, English explorer, traveler, mountaineer, naturalist, author, photographer. World traveler, travel writer; noted successful book,“A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains”(1879). The first female fellow of the Royal Geographical Society #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #HistSci

Sign of the day…

Ohio Third Actors--- Where will you be?

#MOM, be Ur own boss. #Startup! Begin here: https://udemy.com/course/lean-startup-marketing/#MOM#Startup #GirlsWhoCode #momlife #entrepreneurs #womenintech #WomenInSTEM #webdev #WomenWhoCode #bizdev #aistartup #LLM #LAM #AGI #Chatgpt #DataScience #Sharktank

10/14/1939 — b. Callista Roy, American nursing theorist, author. Creator of the adaptation model of nursing; founder, Boston Based Adaptation Research in Nursing Society. Nursing theorist, professor, Connell School of Nursing, Boston College #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #HistNursing #AdaLovelaceDay

10/14/1899 — b. Ilse Knott-ter Meer, German engineer. Early German to be awarded a degree in mechanical engineering. Member, British Women Engineers’ Society (1929); organizer, the first meeting of German female engineers, World Power Conf, Berlin (1930) #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #AdaLovelaceDay

10/14/1797 — b. Ida Pfeiffer, Austrian global traveler, explorer, travel writer, ethnographer. Early female world traveler + explorer; two trips around the world(1846-55). Member Berlin + Paris geographical societies; bestselling travel books #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #womenwriters #AdaLovelaceDay

10/13/1939 — Evelyn “Pinky” Kilgore, American pioneer aviator, becomes the first woman to receive a flight instructor’s license from the Civil Aeronautics Authority. Also an aviation instructor at the Tri-City Airport in Southern California #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #aviation #SheIsTheFirst #OTD

10/13/1871 — b. Eleanor Clarke Slagle, American occupational therapy pioneer, social welfare advocate. Co-founder of the American Occupational Therapy Assn (1917); Illinois state director of occupational therapy(1918); NY state director of occupational therapy ('22) #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #OTD

10/13/1754 — b. Mary McCauley, American folk figure, possible heroine. American #RevolutionaryWar hero in the Battle of Monmouth; considered one of the women to be the actual “Molly Pitcher”, history and legend surrounds the name #womenshistory #MollyPitcher#ShePersisted #ReSisters #NoKings #OTD

On Indigenous Peoples Day, we celebrate the contributions of Indigenous women scientists. Read about some of these amazing women here, and let us know who needs to be added. https://awis.org/historical-women-scientists/?_ethnicity=cc578791f732475ccfa7fcb1dff59d72 #WomenInSTEM

10/8/1826 — b. Emily Blackwell, English physician, surgeon, medical educator. Early British-American female physician; second woman to earn a med degree, Western Reserve Univ; third woman to earn a med degree in the U.S. Taught obstetrics & women’s diseases #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #HistMed #OTD

October 14th is Ada Lovelace Day! A day of blogging, podcasting, posting and hosting events worldwide to celebrate Women in STEM fields, and to encourage and support girls and women to STEM roles and leadership findingada.com #WomenInSTEM #GirlsInSTEM #ALD25 #AdaLovelaceDay

10/7/1858 — b. Rosa Smith Eigenmann, American ichthyologist, author. Internationally renowned ichthyologist; the first noted female authority on fish, the first woman to discover new fish species. The first librarian, San Diego Society of Natural History #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #HistSci #OTD

#womeninstem #history

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...

RIP Jane Goodall.

Greta Thunberg & Jane Goodall #JaneGoodall #environment Everyday should be Earth day.

RIP Queen

The kind of flying back then was incredibly tough. Here's Marvel Crosson - she died in the 1929 air race and I think was the coolest aviatrix of the era. (There were a lot of cool female pilots!) (I just love this picture, so any chance to share it and I will!)

9/26/1865 — b. Mary Russell, Duchess of Bedford, British aviator, ornithologist; OBE (1928). Collected, watched and studied birds and bird migration. “A Bird-Watcher’s Diary” pub posthumously (1938). Record-breaking flights (1929-30); member, Women’s Tax Resistance League #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM

9/23/1839 — b. Helen A. Shafer, American mathematician, educator, administrator. President of Wellesley College (1888-94); chair of mathematics at Wellesley (1877). She vastly improved to Wellesley’s curriculum and implemented higher standards than Harvard #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #OTD

9/22/1904 — b. Ellen Church Marshall, American pilot, nurse, hospital director. Captain and flight nurse in the #WWII Army Nurse Corps; and the first female commercial flight attendant in the world history, she pioneered the stewardess profession (1930s) #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #HistNursing #OTD

Jelena de Belder-Kovačič (1925 – 2003) was a Slovenian-Belgian botanist and horticulturist who worked extensively on the taxonomy and preservation of plant specimens, gaining an international reputation for her development of the Kalmthout and Hemelrijk Arboreta. #WomenInSTEM

Vera Faddeeva: The Soviet Mathematician Who Built Algorithms Before Laptops voxmeditantis.com/2025/09/21/v... #WomenInSTEM #STEM #LinearAlgebra #Numerics #Algorithms

9/6/1857 — b. Zelia Nuttall, American archaeologist, anthropologist, historian. Preeminent archaeologist of her time,renowned ancient Mexico research+expeditions. Honorary Mex archaeology asst,Peabody Mus,Harvard (1886-33);advisory board, Anthro, UC Berkeley #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #HistSci #OTD

9/5/1914 — b. Hannah Wormington, American archaeologist, author. Many excavations; significant contributor to the research of prehistoric cultures. Noted writings/fieldwork on Paleo-Indians of the Southwest. First woman president, Soc for Am Archaeology('67) #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #HistSci #OTD