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There are so many women in #STEAM & #history who weren't widely acknowledged or remembered for their contributions.

I've enjoyed the opportunity to highlight several & plan to continue. Here are a few favorites:

Henrietta Swan Leavitt https://mastodon.social/@Sheril/109379733057460401

Cecilia Payne https://mastodon.social/@Sheril/109457566368555562

Elizabeth Magie https://mastodon.social/@Sheril/109466460231965655

Rosalind Franklin https://mastodon.social/@Sheril/109528549109082379

Lise Meitner https://mastodon.social/@Sheril/109579693193492485

Marianne North https://mastodon.social/@Sheril/109721261779172100

Marie Tharp https://mastodon.social/@Sheril/109771931887156936

Sheril Kirshenbaum (@Sheril@mastodon.social)

Attached: 1 image I bet you’ve heard of Galileo & Hubble, but what about Henrietta Swan Leavitt? Leavitt changed astronomy. She figured out new ways to measure a star’s distance from Earth & her work helped determine the universe is expanding.
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Sudhir
Sudhir
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@Sheril. Interesting Sheril👍🏼😊🌹🙏.
Please continue to share the achievements of great women in our society. I read with interest but feel sad that many of them were not given due credit for their contributions. 🤔 Sad 😡
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SomersetWhovian 🇺🇦💙
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I'm finding this series both enlightening and engaging. Thank you for sharing these stories; the fact that so many of them are new to me speaks volumes about the way women's contributions have been suppressed.
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StarkRG
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I imagine most people are aware of Ada Lovelace, a pioneer in computer programming, but I don't think too many people are aware of the contributions of Bertha Benz without whom the development of the automobile would have been drastically delayed (her husband saw the device as little more than a toy, she saw it for the world-changing tool it turned out to be). She undertook the first "long-distance" journey in an automobile, a bit more than 200km, and had to invent several things along the way including brake linings. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertha_Benz

German automobile pioneer, with husband Karl Benz

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