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 🧪

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 🧠

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 🧪⚛️

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

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 🧠🧪

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! tinyurl.com/4jyxuttr #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

American mathematician Olive Clio Hazlett was born 135 years ago today. A keen algebraist specializing in nilpotent algebras and the arithmetic of algebra, she struggled her whole life with mental health issues, ultimately residing in a state mental hospital for 9 years. #WomenInSTEM #MathSky 🧮

Wishing a happy 90th birthday to Gloria Conyers Hewitt, the group theorist who in 1962 became the fourth Black woman to earn a PhD in mathematics, and went on to become, in 1995, the 1st Black woman to chair a US mathematical department. #WomenInSTEM #MathSky #BlackWomenInSTEM 🧮

Comparative Neuroanatomy legend Elizabeth Crosby was born 137 years ago today. She was a major contributor to the 1936 classic text The Comparative Anatomy of the Nervous System of Vertebrates and recipient of the National Medal of Science. #WomenInSTEM #NeuroSky #MedSky 🧠

Captain Lakshmi Sahgal was born 111 years ago today. As a doctor, she was a key figure behind organizing medical aid to refugees during the Bangladesh Crisis, and as a politician she was a leading light of the Free India Movement, serving in the INA's women's brigade. #WomenInSTEM #MedSky ⚕️

June Bacon-Bercey, the first Black woman to earn a PhD in meteorology, was born 97 years ago today. She worked for the AEC studying nuclear fallout, and transitioned to a career in education and outreach, working for the @noaa.gov and the National Weather Service. #WomenInSTEM #Meteorology 🌧️

Mathematician Marguerite Lehr was born 127 years ago today. Working in algebraic geometry, Lehr was a tentpole presence at Bryn Mawr from 1925 to her retirement in 1967 who also pushed the boundaries of #scicomm with a tv math program she hosted in the 1950s. #WomenInSTEM #MathSky 🧮

Wishing a happy 83rd birthday to Nobel laureate Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, whose 1991 Prize was awarded for her groundbreaking research into the genetic mechanisms behind the development of embryos. Here is her story! tinyurl.com/3jjkr7ap

New post! Today we focus on the life and career of Hamida Saiduzzafar (1921-1988), India's first woman ophthalmologist, and a driving force behind glaucoma research in her country. Here is her story! tinyurl.com/2s5yafv9 #WomenInSTEM #MedSky #Ophthalmology #PublicHealth ⚕️🧪

Theoretical physicist Fumiko Yonezawa was born 87 years ago today. She was a pioneer in the use of computers to model matter in amorphous states, and the 1st woman president of the Physical Society of Japan. She passed away in 2019. #WomenInSTEM #Physics 🧪

Wishing a happy 69th birthday to astronaut, doctor, and businesswoman Mae Jemison, whose mission on STS-47 in 1992 made her the first Black woman in space, and who has since founded educational and innovation initiatives to balance out world access to technology. tinyurl.com/mw73da2b #WomenInSTEM

Obstetrician Dossibai Dadabhoy was born 144 years ago today. She was the first Indian woman member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (1910) and upon her return to India devoted her energies to lowering infant mortality through the founding of maternal welfare centers. #WomenInSTEM #MedSky

Neuroscience legend Augusta Déjerine-Klumpke was born 166 years ago today. She discovered Klumpke's Palsy in 1885, and was co-author of the definitive 1200 page Sémiologie du Système Nerveux and the 2-volume Anatomie des Centres Nerveux. tinyurl.com/bdfb4tbh #WomenInSTEM #Neuroscience #NeuroSky 🧠🧪

Hey folks - no birthday on our lists for today so instead we're just going to remind y'all that our series of books on the history of #WomenInSTEM are out there and available, and that all proceeds go to keeping the Archive funded and free to access for Everybody! #BookSky #AstroSky #MedSky 🧪🧮🧠🔭

New profile! Today on the Archive we celebrate the life and work of Mary "Mollie" Babcock Atwater, who headed Out West to become the company doctor for a Montana gold mine, and ended up a foundational figure in the state's medical and suffrage movements. tinyurl.com/3cjjd76u #WomenInSTEM #MedSky ⚕️

Archaeologist Harriet Boyd Hawes was born 154 years ago today. In 1901, she discovered the ancient Minoan town of Gournia, uncovering some 60 homes, and then, in World War I, became a war nurse organizing Serbian relief. tinyurl.com/mtpk88f4 #WomenInSTEM #Archaeology #MedSky

This life on planet earth isn’t the end. The consciousness survives. We are part of Mother Nature. You get to choose the difference that you make. #Pinks

Dr. Amy Dhunjibhoy Engineer was born 110 years ago today - she was the head of the Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology at Queen Mary's Hospital for 23 years, expanding the availability of women's care, particularly to the poor community. She passed away in 1989. #WomenInSTEM #MedSky ⚕️

Wishing a happy 76th birthday to mathematician Fan Chung, whose work on Graph Theory Combinatorics gave us startling insights into the fate of massively interconnected systems like the Internet. tinyurl.com/7yzbja29 #WomenInSTEM #MathSky 🧮

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.

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 tinyurl.com/6nk6a2wd

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 🧪

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 🧪

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 🧮 tinyurl.com/mrxj66r9

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

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 🧪🐟

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 🧮