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Esther Lederberg (December 18, 1922 – November 11, 2006) pioneered bacterial genetics, discovering lambda phage and F factor, inventing replica plating and furthered the understanding of the transfer of genes between bacteria by specialized transduction. She founded Stanford's Plasmid Reference Center. Despite groundbreaking work, she never got tenure and her discoveries are often credited to her Nobel laureate husband.
"The moment of discovery" does not always exist: the scientist's work is too tenuous, too divided, for the certainty of success to crackle out suddenly in the midst of his laborious toil like a stroke of lightening, dazzling him by its fire.
In: Eve Curie - Madame Curie - Chapter XII (p. 158)
~Marie Curie #BOTD in 1867.
#physics #radioactivity #womeninStem
#OnThisDay, 8 Apr 1959, Mary K Hawes initiates a project to create the first universal programming language for computers used by businesses and government. Grace Hopper led the team that then created COBOL. Some mainframes are still using it.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInSTEM #Histodons
Happy birthday to #physicist Lise Meitner (1878-1968) who explained #nuclear #fission. She worked with chemists Hahn & Straßmann in 30s Berlin, investigating whether there were any stable elements beyond uranium. They discovered bombarding nucleus of U-235 with neutrons actually triggered it to fission, or break, into 2 nuclei of roughly half the size & some free neutrons! Hahn’s chemistry lead to startling discovery of barium,🧵
#linocut #printmaking #sciart #histsci #womenInSTEM #MastoArt
SpaceX Starlink satellites photobombed my northern lights photos in Iceland!
#space #science #spacex #astrodon #womeninstem
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SpaceX Starlink satellites photobombed my Northern Lights photos!
We've known for awhile that increasing numbers of satellites are a problem for astronomy and astrophotography. I had my own issues with SpaceX's Starlink sat...YouTube
🤗🌄👏 We welcome Johanna Beirer as a new member @Mol_Ecol @uniinnsbruck !
Johanna does her master thesis on the circadian rhythm of an #Alpine #Drosophila #fly in the context of #ClimateChange
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This is Elisabeth Wollman (1888-1943). Her life was extraordinary & her legacy is phenomenal.
In collaboration with her husband, Eugène, she was a pioneer of what became molecular genetics. This pic is her Pasteur Institute portrait from the early 1920s.
Their groundbreaking work was carried on by a colleague & their son, leading to a Nobel prize & more.
CW: The Wollmans' lives were ended in Auschwitz.
I've just created her Wikipedia page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisabet…
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Today I learned the word ‘scientist’ was coined in 1834 to describe Mary Somerville, replacing the term ‘man of science’.
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Meet Mary Somerville: The Brilliant Woman for Whom the Word “Scientist” Was Coined
How a Scottish polymath forever changed the course of gender in science and made a high art of connecting the seemingly disconnected.The Marginalian
An extraordinary pharmaceutical #chemist to celebrate for #BlackHistoryMonth - Alice Ball (1892-1916) who developed 1st effective treatment for #leprosy. Her research saved 1000s from exile & painful, ineffective lifelong treatment for leprosy, & she was a trailblazer for both women & Black scientists.
Ball studied #chemistry at UW earning a BSc & 2nd degree in pharmacy 2 years later.
#printmaking #sciart #BlackInSTEM #womenInSTEM #histstm
I’m doing a project featuring little-known women of science as a part of my studies as a lab technician.
I’ll be drawing some portraits and illustrating the research and discoveries of some interesting scientists✨
Let’s start!
🧬Nettie Stevens. American geneticist who discovered chromosomes X/Y by studying Mealworms (Tenebrio molitor)
#science #womeninstem #womeninscience #molecularbiology #genetics #mastoart #portrait #research #art #ciencia
¡Estamos de regreso! 🙌 Y nada mejor que comenzar con este calendario donde puedes consultar efemérides de mujeres relevantes en ciencia y tecnología de todo el mundo.
Un gran trabajo de Lorena Fernández que celebramos y compartimos.
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En 1988, muere Dorothy Lewis Bernstein. Matemática estadounidense conocida por su trabajo en matemática aplicada, estadística, programación de computadoras y su investigación sobre la transformación de Laplace. Fue la primera mujer en ser elegida presiden
¿Quieres saber si cumples años el mismo día que una gran científica o si hoy se celebra algún hecho que ha marcado la historia de la ciencia y que ha sido protagonizado por una mujer invisible? Marquemos en rojo el calendario con todo lo que nos han …El Blog de Loretahur
Not all heroes wear spacesuits.
In 2015 #OTD, President Barack Obama awarded former @nasa mathematician Katherine Johnson the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, for her contributions to early spaceflight: go.nasa.gov/3EQKqBp
#WomenInSTEM
#NASAhistory
Katherine Johnson
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Hello there! 🧬 Biochemist and 🖥️ R programmer from #Spain speaking. I like reading sci-fi & fantasy and watching TV shows. Feminisms and #WomenInSTEM. Hope to meet like-minded people and see many cat's pics 
#Introduction #rstats #scifi #chemistry #biochemistry #molecularbiology