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 🧠

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 🧪🔭

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 ⚕️

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 🧪⚕️

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 🧪⚕️

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 🧪🌱

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. tinyurl.com/39fz8jnn #WomenInSTEM #Engineering

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 🧪

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 ⚕️

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 🌱🧪

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 🧪🔭

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. tinyurl.com/3je86wjm #WomenInSTEM #ChemSky #Physics 🧪

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 🧪⚛️

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 🧪🚀

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 🧪

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 🧮

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 🐛

Margaretta Hare Morris was born 228 years ago today. She was a leading figure in the development of agricultural entomology in the United States, overcoming gender bias to become a respected expert on the life cycles of insects that affect crops. tinyurl.com/4tfscbh7 #WomenInSTEM #Entomology 🐛

Wilhelmina Iwanowska, the astrophysicist who co-founded Nicolaus Copernicus University and through it played a major role in establishing astrophysics as a field of advanced study in Poland, was born 120 years ago today. She was head of the Torun Observatory for 24 years. #WomenInSTEM #AstroSky 🔭

Molecular spectroscopist Hertha Sponer was born 130 years ago today. From the 1920s through the 1960s she was a leading force in the use of molecular absorption spectra to probe molecular structure. tinyurl.com/mshhpt45 #WomenInSTEM #Physics #Chemistry 🧪⚛️

Mary Putnam Jacobi was born 183 years ago today - she was among the first women who not only received a medical degree, but who then pushed forward and not only did medical research, but published their results, authoring some 120 papers. tinyurl.com/2xpz5876 #WomenInSTEM #MedSky #BioSky 🧪⚕️

Wishing a happy 90th birthday to Sylvia Earle, the marine biologist who broke gender barriers with the Tektite program, and has since become the planet's most prominent spokesperson for sustainable marine policy. We love you, Dr. Earle! tinyurl.com/mr29uuru #WomenInSTEM #BioSky #MarineBiology 🧪

Biochemist Gladys Royal was born 99 years ago today. In the 1950s she and her husband carried out research into the use of bone marrow transplants to treat the radiation overdoses that arose from the heavy radiation used to treat cancer at the time. #WomenInSTEM #BioSky #HistSci 🧪

One of the 1st five women to be elected to Royal Society of Edinburgh: Dr Christina Cruikshank Miller #BOTD 1899 made crucial discoveries in analytical chemistry. @wisarchive.bsky.social @royalsoced.bsky.social @scifri.bsky.social @science.org @standupforscience.bsky.social

Mathematician and poet Diamante Faini was born 301 years ago today. Her 1763 oration on the importance of the sciences to a woman's education was a classic of the 18th century, and soon after she turned her mind towards mathematical studies with Giambattista Suardi. #WomenInSTEM #MathSky 🧮

Ayyalasomayajula Lalitha, India's first woman engineer, was born 106 years ago today. Throughout the 1950s and 60s, she worked at AEI as part of the titanic effort to increase the capacity and safety of the Indian electrical grid. tinyurl.com/bddky2k2 #WomenInSTEM #Engineering #EE 🧪

Pioneering cryptologist Elizebeth Friedman was born 133 years ago today! She was a driving force in the US cryptology program, leading code-breaking efforts in both World Wars and during Prohibition. Here is her story! tinyurl.com/5crzaufw #WomenInSTEM #HistSci #MathSky

Wishing a happy 83rd birthday to mathematician Karen Uhlenbeck, winner of the 2019 Abel Prize for her work applying gauge theory to four dimensional manifolds. Here is her story! tinyurl.com/ybmvcbpx #WomenInSTEM #MathSky #HistSci 🧮

Yesterday was the 100th anniversary of the birth of Brazilian mathematician Elza Furtado Gomide. She was the second woman in Brazil to earn a PhD in mathematics, and the 1st at the University of Sao Paolo, where she would go on to chair the department by 1968. #WomenInSTEM #MathSky 🧮

Psychologist Margaret Morgan Lawrence was born 111 years ago today. She was a pioneer in the studies of the mental well being of inner-city children, and was chief of Developmental Psychiatry at Harlem Hospital for 21 years. She passed away in 2019 at the age of 105. #WomenInSTEM #PsychSky 🧠

Wishing a happy 92nd birthday to South Korean microbiologist Kyung Joo Kwon-Chung. She was a leader of molecular microbiology at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases starting in the 60s and in 2024 was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. #WomenInSTEM #BioSky 🧪

Biochemist Gerty Cori was born 129 years ago today! She and her husband discovered the Cori Cycle by which glucose is metabolized in the body, for which they won the Nobel Prize themselves in 1947, and their lab went on to produce six more Nobel winners. Here is her story. tinyurl.com/mkysr88a

Astronomical spectroscopist Margaret Huggins was born 177 years ago today. In the 19th century, she used her skills as a photographer to capture the spectra of stars for analysis, applying her method to a multitude of stellar & terrestrial phenomena. tinyurl.com/2s4nyua6 #WomenInSTEM #AstroSky 🔭🧪

Two great women mathematicians were born on this day in 1866 - Clara Bacon was a tentpole presence at Goucher College from 1914 to 1934 while Frances Hardcastle was one of the first women to join the American Mathematical Society and was an expert on point groups. #WomenInSTEM #MathSky #HistSci 🧮🧪

Astrophysicist Margaret Burbridge was born 106 years ago today. In 1957, she co-authored the groundbreaking B2FH paper which proposed the modern theory for how new elements are made inside of stars, then went on to work in galactic analysis. #WomenInSTEM #AstroSky #HistSci

Mathematician Carol Karp was born 99 years ago today. Here research was in the area of infinitary logic, where infinitely long statements and infinitely long proofs are allowed. She wrote a foundational book on the subject in 1964. #WomenInSTEM #MathSky #BookSky #HistSci 🧮

Dorothea Klumpke Roberts was born 174 years ago today. She was the Paris Observatory's Director of the Bureau of Measurements & in later life published her photographical study of Herschel's 52 "areas of nebulosity," which won the Helbronner Prize. #WomenInSTEM #AstroSky #BookSky #HistSci 🧪🔭

31 years ago today, Circle of Life was released as a single, and promptly went platinum in the UK & US. What I love is how Elton uses a move from tightly controlled chord movements to larger tonal leaps to expansively tell us the story of Life Itself. #EltonJohn #LionKing #BookSky #MusicSky 🎹

Just over a month ago, trailblazing particle physicist Mary Gaillard passed away. Today, we induct her into the Archive. Her work on kaons, strange and charm quarks, the Higgs boson, and supersymmetry was central to the Particle Revolution. tinyurl.com/mrx3dwzh #WomenInSTEM #Physics #HistSci 🧪⚛️

Child developmental psychologist Florence Goodenough was born 139 years ago today. Her creation of the Draw-A-Man test gave psychologists a non-linguistic means of evaluating child developmental landmarks, and is still in use! #WomenInSTEM #PsychSky #BookSky 🧪🧠

Wishing a happy 79th birthday to physicist Shirley Ann Jackson!! The second Black woman to receive a PhD in physics, her optical, low energy, and electrical researches at Bell Labs beginning in 1976 led to her assuming the presidency, in 1999, of Rensselaer. #WomenInSTEM #BlackWomenInSTEM 🧪⚛️

Wishing a happy 81st birthday to geneticist Georgia Dunston. She has worked on tumor immunology and research on the genetics of conditions that are particularly prevalent in the Black community, including difficulties with organ donation, and type 2 diabetes. #WomenInSTEM #BlackHealth #MedSky 🧪⚕️

Hey Folks - if you're from the San Francisco Bay Area, I'm going to be having an Elton John event at Hayward's Books on B on August 16 from 5:00 to 7:00. I'll be spinning & chatting about selections from some of my favorite Elton tracks, so come by and say hi! #EltonJohn #BookSky #MusicSky🎹

Quaker taxonomist and ornithologist Graceanna Lewis was born 204 years ago today. In addition to writing about the fine structures of bird feathers, she was also actively engaged in attempts to create new systems of scientific categorization. tinyurl.com/y9dsth37 #WomenInSTEM #HistSci #BioSky 🧪

Brazilian paleobotanist Maria Salgado-Labouriau was born 94 years today. Her research into the deep past of plant evolution took her across the Andes Mountains and the Brazilian Plateau, and resulted in a string of books that vaulted her to worldwide scientific status. #WomenInSTEM #Botany 🌱🧪

#OTD 1 August 1786, Caroline Herschel discovered her first comet (35P/Herschel-Rigollet) and as far as is known was the first woman to achieve this. Between 1786 and 1797 she discovered eight comets and was the first to see five of them. 🔗 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolin... @wisarchive.bsky.social

In celebration of astronomer Maria Mitchell's 207th birthday, here's the comic I did for our original @wisarchive.bsky.social piece on her back in 2015! The bit about Vassar making her sleep on a cot is 100% true! #WomenInSTEM #AstroSky #HistSci 🔭🧪

And hey, just sayin', if reading about Maria Mitchell and Helen Sawyer Hogg today got you curious about Other stories of great women astronomers, we've got just the book for you, with over 130 figures to learn all about! #WomenInSTEM #AstroSky #BookSky #HistSci 🧪🔭

And while we're talking astronomy, it's also the 120th anniversary of Helen Sawyer Hogg's birth! Not just a first rate astronomer, she was also her generation's most influential astronomy communicator, writing books like The Stars Belong To Everyone. tinyurl.com/47wtp3ac #WomenInSTEM #AstroSky🔭

Maria Mitchell, America's first professional astronomer and an inspiration, both through her example and her decades at Vassar, to generations of 19th century women seeking a career in science, was born 207 years ago today. tinyurl.com/4ste4zzr #WomenInSTEM #AstroSky #HistSci 🔭🧪