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Florence Merriam Bailey

8/8/1863 — b. Florence Merriam Bailey, American ornithologist, nature writer. Co-founder of the Audubon Society, Wash D.C. The first woman member, American Ornithologists Union (1885); the first wmn honored w/the Brewster Medal (1931); published field guides #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #HistSci #OTD

Lydia Villa Komaroff

8/7/1947 — b. Lydia Villa-Komaroff, American molecular biologist. Internationally recognized; Advisory Committee member, Biology Directorate of the Natl Science Foundation. Published 60+ articles; 1 of 6 scientists profiled by #PBS “Discovering Women” series #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #HistSci #OTD

Alice Huyler Ramsey driving with her three companion travelers

Alice Huyler Ramsey changing the car's tire.

8/7/1909 — Alice Ramsey and three women traveling in a green Maxwell 30 become the first women to complete a transcontinental automobile trip; Broadway, NYC to San Francisco, California. Ramsey, the only driver, was the first woman to drive across the U.S. #womenshistory #auto #WomenInSTEM #OTD

Tell the EPA: Uphold Power Plant Pollution Limits & Protect Public Health The Environmental Protection Agency just proposed rolling back all limits on carbon pollution from fossil fuel-fired power plants. Comments on the proposed repeal may be submitted now through August 7...

🚨Deadline for comments is TODAY—make your voice heard!

EPA is attempting to argue that climate pollution from coal- and gas-fired power plants—responsible for about a quarter of all US heat-trapping emissions—isn’t worth regulating. Join us in pushing back on this deeply harmful proposal!

Geena Davis Institute's 2017 study, backed by 21st Century Fox, found 63% of women in STEM were inspired by The X-Files' Dana Scully, proving strong female media role models drive real-world career choices. #ScullyEffect #WomenInSTEM #GeenaDavis

Hertha Sponer in the lab. Credit: Science History Images/Alamy Stock Photo.

A substantial number of female physicists in the first half of the 20th century contributed to quantum physics. For the history of physics to properly recognize their work, new approaches are needed, argues Andrea Reichenberger in Nature Reviews Physics. go.nature.com/41mjQuJ #WomeninSTEM ⚛️ 🧪

Susie King Taylor

8/6/1848 — b. Susie King Taylor, American Civil War nurse, social activist, educator, memoirist. The “Black Clara Barton”; the only #woc to publish a memoir of her Civil War experiences. The first Af-Am to teach openly in a school for former slaves #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #HistNursing #OTD

The all-female rescue mission to Mars: my opera about a toxic tech bro takeover of the red planet Four women travel 140m miles across the heavens – only to find their new world in hostile corporate hands. Composer Jennifer Walshe reveals what fed into her epic opera, from low-gravity procreation...

The all-female rescue mission to Mars: my opera about a toxic tech bro takeover of the red planet #Science #Culture #MarsMission #WomenInSTEM #OperaInnovation

Poldi Fuhrich in the Moerk Dome Ice Cave

7/30/1898 — b. Poldi Fuhrich, Austrian speleologist, mountaineer, zoologist, botanist. Early female cave researcher; also studied mineralogy, pedagogy & petrography. Member, Speleological Soc of Vienna; early to explore deep into Ersterkundungen cave systems #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #HistSci #OTD

Jeanne Dieulafoy

7/29/1851 — b. Jane Dieulafoy, French anthropologist, archaeologist, explorer, author, journalist, photographer. Wrote travel lit, historical studies, novels & short stories. The wife of archaeologist Marcel Dieulafoy; known for their excavations, Susa, Iran #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #HistSci #OTD

Shaping the history of quantum physics to make women visible

🔍 Behind the Paper: 'Women in Quantum History'. It is a commonly held belief that women's contributions to the development of quantum physics have been negligible. However, a close examination of the extant sources reveals that this is not the case.🔗bit.ly/3GM7Co9 👩‍🔬 #WomeninSTEM

A sepia-toned picture of a young woman smiling. She has short and wavy hair. She is a student, her hair is down, in a casual style.

Ana Kansky (1895 - 1962) was a Slovene chemist and chemical engineer noted for being the first person to obtain a doctoral degree at the University of Ljubljana and one of the earliest known women scientists from Slovenia.
🧪 #WomenInSTEM

Aida de Acosta

7/28/1884 — b. Aida de Acosta, American aviator, activist. The first woman to fly a powered aircraft solo, a powered dirigible (1903). Founder of a Sight Restoration Eye Bank to collect corneal tissue from the dead to restore eyesight to the living #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #HistSci #OTD

7/28/1866 — b. Beatrix Potter, British natural scientist, mycologist, conservationist, author, and scientific illustrator. She published 22 illustrated animal story books, most notably ‘The Tale of Peter Rabbit’ (1901) #womenshistory #womenartists #womensart #WomenInSTEM #OTD

Eleanor Annie Lamson looking through telescope

7/20/1900 — Eleanor Annie Lamson becomes the first female astronomer to be hired by the United States Naval Observatory in Washington, District of Columbia #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #HistSci #SheIsTheFirst #Navy #military #OTD #TDIH

7/20/1848 — The Second Day of #SenecaFalls Convention | After the signing of “The Declaration of Rights & Sentiments”, it took 72 yrs of organized struggle before women won the right to vote. 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution passed in 1920 #womenshistory #womensrights #votingrights #OTD #TDIH

Margarete Mitscherlich-Nielsen

7/17/1917 — b. Margarete Mitscherlich-Nielsen, German psychoanalyst. Psychology researcher; focused on the female sexuality, feminism, and the national psychology of post-war Germany #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #HistSci #HistMed #TDIH #OTD

#FemmesDeSciences #WomenInStem #sciences

Emily Stowe

7/16/1880 — Emily Stowe becomes the second licensed female physician in Canada. Jennie Kidd Trout was the first licensed female physician in Canada (1875) #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #HistMed #HistSci #Canada #OTD

Abby Howland Woolsey

7/16/1828 — b. Abby Howland Woolsey, American nursing leader, welfare worker, Civil War volunteer, and abolitionist. Co-founder of the Woman’s Central Relief Association of New York, the forerunner of U.S. Sanitary Commission #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #HistNursing #HistSci #OTD

Maggie Lena Walker

7/15/1867 — b. Maggie L. Walker, American business executive, banker, civic leader, educator, author and philanthropist. Founder, St. Luke Penny Savings Bank, Richmond, VA (1903); the first female bank president and the first woman to charter a bank in the U.S. #womenshistory #woc #WomenInSTEM #OTD

Almira Lincoln Phelps

7/15/1793 — b. Almira Phelps, American educator, author, publisher. A pioneer of women’s education; published many popular science texts (botany, chemistry + geology). The second female member of the American Assn for the Advancement of Science (1859) #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #HistSci #edu #OTD

Graphic banner for an exhibition titled 'The Art of Nursing: Creativity, Resistance, Renewal'. In the background there are historic images of nurses and examples of art pieces found in the exhibition.

Come and visit the new major exhibition at our London Library!

Discover art by and about nurses over the last 150 years. Explore the role of art in both constructing and resisting stereotypes, by exposing the complexity, labour and expertise of nursing.

Find out more: bit.ly/4kIaPDP

#ArtOfNursing

Gertrude Bell

7/14/1868 — b. Gertrude Bell, English archaeologist, traveler, museum administrator, author and spy. She traveled and explored in the Middle East, was the founder of an archaeological museum in Baghdad, and also served as Iraq’s Director of Antiquities #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #HistSci #OTD

Lady Edison: How Beulah Louise Henry’s 49 Patents Were Dismissed as ‘Women’s Work Beulah Louise Henry (1887-1973), dubbed “Lady Edison,” revolutionised daily life through 49 patents and 110+ inventions including the bobbinless sewing machine and carbon-free typewrite…

Lady Edison: How Beulah Louise Henry's 49 Patents Were Dismissed as 'Women's Work
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#WomenInSTEM #STEM #LadyEdison #Innovation #Engineering

Scientists detect biggest ever merger of two massive black holes Ripples in space-time from collision recorded by gravitational wave detector forces a rethink of how the objects form

🔊 Two really massive black holes, COLLIDING💥!

LIGO has seen ~300 of these collisions since 2015, but this one is HUGE creating a black hole 256x the mass of the Sun. It's likely the merging black holes were themselves the by-product of previous mergers 🤓🔭🧪

ℹ️: www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Mildred Dalton Manning at desk

7/11/1914 — b. Mildred Dalton Manning, American Army nurse. World War II prisoner of war (1942-45); the last of the Angels of Bataan and Corregidor #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #HistNursing #HistMed #military #WWII #OTD

The Mathematical Trailblazer Lost in the Shadows Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw (1912-2014) overcame deafness and systemic discrimination to revolutionise mathematics, solving ancient magic square problems that had puzzled scholars for millennia. Desp…

The Mathematical Trailblazer Lost in the Shadows
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#WomenInSTEM #STEM #Mathematics #Deafness #Education

Rozella M. Shlotfeldt

6/29/1914 — b. Rozella M. Schlotfeldt, American nursing leader, admin, educator, author. Consultant, Surgeon General’s Advisory Group on Nursing (1961-63), and the Walter Reed Army Inst for Nursing Research (1967-74). Council member, American Acad of Nursing #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #HistNursing

The Microbiologist Who Fought Typhoid.
Dr. Félicité Niyitegeka led Rwanda’s typhoid vaccine rollout and tackled deadly disease outbreaks under pressure. What would global health efforts look like without leaders like her?
#WomenInSTEM
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