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Italian physicist and academic, first woman to have doctorate in science Laura Bassi was born #OTD in 1711. Bassi became the most important populariser of Newtonian mechanics in Italy.
"Two students who discovered a seemingly impossible proof to the Pythagorean theorem in 2022 have wowed the math community again with nine completely new solutions to the problem."
#BlackMastodon #WomenInStem #BlackandStem #GoodNews
High school students who came up with 'impossible' proof of Pythagorean theorem discover 9 more solutions to the problem
In a new peer-reviewed study, Ne'Kiya Jackson and Calcea Johnson outlined 10 ways to solve the Pythagorean theorem using trigonometry, including a proof they discovered in high school.Sascha Pare (Live Science)
#linocut #printmaking #womenInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #histsci #Spacetober #EarthScience #Math
American astronomer Henrietta Hill Swope was born #OTD in 1902.
Working with H. Shapley, she helped establish the famous period-luminosity relation for Cepheid variable stars, thereby permitting determination of the Sun's position in our galaxy and of distances to other galaxies. In 1962, using plates taken with the 200" Hale reflector by W. Baade, she determined the distance to the Andromeda galaxy to be 2.2 million light years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Hill_Swope
British geneticist and plant anatomist Edith Rebecca Saunders was born #OTD in 1865.
She is best as known as the "Mother of British Plant Genetics": she played an active role in the re-discovery of Mendel's laws of heredity, the understanding of trait inheritance in plants. She also developed extensive work on flower anatomy, particularly focusing on the gynoecia, the female reproductive organs of flowers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Rebecca_Saunders
#botanics #genetics #womeninSTEM
And continuing on the road of the Nobel Prize for Men:
we are 0 for 4 on naming anyone who is not an old white guy. Now taking bets on how many days before non-old-white-guy appears in the awards...
nobelprize.org/all-nobel-prizes-2024/
Ah, the yearly week of the Nobel Prize for Men has started.
These guys did great work, surely. Also lots of non-men have done great work. I've followed this in the past and been so bitterly dissappointed by the lack of anything but old white guys. We'll see if this year is better, but so far 0 for 2 awardees.
Christie’s ‘Lady Computers’ – the astrographic pioneers of Greenwich.
The first women to be employed at the Royal Observatory in a professional capacity were Isabella Clemes, Alice Everett, Harriet Furniss, Edith Rix and Annie Russell. They were all employed as ‘Lady Computers’ between 1890 and 1895.
By Graham Dolan via @ROGAstronomers
http://www.royalobservatorygreenwich.org/articles.php?article=1280
#science #astronomy #womeninSTEM
Christie's 'Lady Computers' - the astrographic pioneers of Greenwich
Staffing problems in the late 1880s; The mystery of the missing records; The intended role of the women; The Astrographic programme and other photographic work done by the women; Published one-off and ocassional observations with other instruments; A…www.royalobservatorygreenwich.org
What a resume!
"Without Ms. Berezin, there would be no Bill Gates, no Steve Jobs, no internet, no word processors, no spreadsheets; nothing that remotely connects business with the 21st century."
via https://mefi.social/@best_of_mltshp/113260972705254265
#TIL #WomenInTech #WomenInTechnology #WomenInSTEM
Best of MLTSHP (@best_of_mltshp@mefi.social)
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In October 1843.
Anna Atkins begins publishing Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions, a collection of contact printed cyanotype photograms of algae, "by placing the unmounted dried-algae original directly on the cyanotype paper" to form the first book illustrated with photographs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Atkins
New York Public Library provides scans of 285 pages of its copy online:
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/photographs-of-british-algae-cyanotype-impressions#/?tab=navigation&scroll=3
#books #botany #photography #womeninSTEM
