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This is the graduating class of 1916, chemistry division, Tohoku Imperial University.
There, at the end of the 2nd row, is the first woman to achieve a bachelor of science in Japan.
Her name was 黒田チカ, Chika Kuroda (1884-1968) & she was the daughter of a samurai...1/6
Let's not forget another amazing person born #OTD - Hedy Lamarr. The brilliant actress co-invented Spread Spectrum Technology, which would one day form the basis for today's #WiFi and #Bluetooth communication systems: women-inventors.com/Hedy-Lamma…
You may recognize her from SETI Live co-host Beth Johnson's background, which is actually a wall in one of our conference rooms!
h/t Cady Coleman, astronaut
Hedy Lamarr: Invention of Spread Spectrum Technology
Read a biography of Hedy Lamarr, the Austrian actress who joined the ranks of the famous women inventors by authoring breakthroughs in spread spectrum technology.www.women-inventors.com
Happy birthday to #inventor Hedy Lamarr (1914 – 2000) & Hollywood star. Born Hedwig Keisler in Vienna, she gained fame after her risqué & notorious starring role in Machatý's ‘33 film Ecstasy. Mandl, 1st of 6 husbands, objected & tried unsuccessfully to buy all copies of film. Hedy objected to him, a munitions manufacturer, dealing with fascists despite both being of Jewish heritage. She learned secret of her beauty was 🧵1/n
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"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.
Marie Curie was born #OTD in 1867.
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."
livescience.com/physics-mathem…
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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)
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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.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henriett…
