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#OnThisDay, 20 Apr 1902, Maria Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie refine radium chlorine. The discovery leads to Marie being the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903.

The committee had planned to only award the Nobel to Pierre and Henri. Committee member and Swedish mathematician Magnus Gösta Mittag-Leffler alerted Pierre Curie to the plan. Pierre insisted Marie also receive the prize.

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posed photograph of Maria Skłodowska-Curie in her lab holding a volumetric flask. She is a white woman with dark hair in a bun.
Pierre and Marie outdoors with their bicycles, during their honeymoon.
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Before Computers Were Machines, They Were Women. Here Are Six Places Where Human Computers Built Modern Science

From AT&T to NASA, women working as computers performed the calculations that made modern science possible. In the early 1900s, computing joined teaching and nursing as one of the few careers open to college-educated women, and it opened doors that few other professions could

by Diana Turnbow

smithsonianmag.com/blogs/smith…

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The Harvard Computers standing in front of Building C at the Harvard College Observatory, 13 May 1913. Photograph of the Harvard Computers, a group of women who worked under Edward Charles Pickering at the Harvard College Observatory. The photograph was taken on 13 May 1913 in front of Building C, which was then the newest building at the Observatory. The image was discovered in an album which had once belonged to Annie Jump Cannon. Image courtesy of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Back row (L to R): Margaret Harwood (far left), Mollie O'Reilly, Edward C. Pickering, Edith Gill, Annie Jump Cannon, Evelyn Leland (behind Cannon), Florence Cushman, Marion Whyte (behind Cushman), Grace Brooks. Front row: Arville Walker, unknown (possibly Johanna Mackie), Alta Carpenter, Mabel Gill, Ida Woods. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Computers#/media/File:Edward_Charles_Pickering's_Harem_13_May_1913.jpg

Before Computers Were Machines, They Were Women. Here Are Six Places Where Human Computers Built Modern Science

From AT&T to NASA, women working as computers performed the calculations that made modern science possible.
Diana Turnbow, researcher and writer for the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum (Smithsonian Magazine)
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Eiffel Tower to gain symmetry with addition of women’s names

Women will join men in being honored on the Paris icon. The inspiration for the gender parity came from student and Eiffel Tower tour guide Benjamin Rigaud.

by Toni Feder

physicstoday.aip.org/news/eiff…

A brochure with information about each of the women scientists is available here:
femmesetsciences.fr/_files/ugd…

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Projet architectural de Stéphen Sauvestre. The drawing includes: The central elevation of the tower (300 metres tall) Notre-Dame de Paris drawn to scale on the left for height comparison The Arc de Triomphe on the right, also to scale A table on the left listing the heights of famous monuments compared to the proposed tower Notes on the right listing the tower's intended uses — meteorological observatory, aeronautical observation, strategic communications, optical telegraph, electric lighthouse, and public access at 300m https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tour_Eiffel#/media/Fichier:Projet_Sauvestre_Eiffel.jpg

Eiffel Tower to gain symmetry with addition of women’s names

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Happy birthday to French mathematician, physicist and philosopher Marie-Sophie Germain (1776 – 1831), known as Sophie. She taught herself mathematics using books in her father’s library and by corresponding with leading mathematicians of her day, including Lagrange, Legendre and Gauss, initially using the pseudonym Monsieur LeBlanc. Her work on elasticity theory won her the grand prize from the Paris Academy of Sciences. 🧵

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Linocut of Sophie Germain (a young woman in with a collar with bow, under a dark dress, with a ribbon tied around her neck, long hair with centre part, half tied up with a ribbon in her hair). She is printed in dark blue with her own words about Fermat's Last Theorem in her own script carved into her hair and dress). Behind her in lavender is a grid of Chladni figures.
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