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Celebrating Eleven Years of bringing stories of scientific women to light! Our newest book, A History of Women in Psychology and Neuroscience, is now available! www.wisarchive.com
Today's Women In Music Spotlight features Dorothy Fields, Tin Pan Alley composer of some 400 songs and 15 musicals, whose songs "The Way You Look Tonight", "On the Sunny Side of the Street", and "I'm in the Mood for Love" are now immortal members of the American Songbook.
#MusicSky #BookSky
Mary Breckinridge, the founder of the Frontier Nursing Service, a grand experiment started in the 1920s to bring organized nursing resources to rural areas that would otherwise have had no medical access at all, was born on this day 145 years ago!
tinyurl.com/3avbm583
#WomenInSTEM #MedSky #Nursing
Today's Women In Music Spotlight features Esther "Jinx" Dawson (b. 1950), lead vocalist for the proto-metal band Coven, whose 1969 album Witchcraft Destroys Minds & Reaps Souls originated much of what we associate with the metal scene today.
#WomenInMusic #HeavyMetal #BookSky ๐งช๐น
Botanist Marie Clark Taylor was born 115 years ago today. After serving as an army nurse during World War 2, she was the head of the botany department at Howard University for three decades, pursuing photomorphogenic research.
#WomenInSTEM #PlantSky #Botany #BioSky ๐งช๐ฑ
My author copies of A History of Women in Music have arrived! This was a tremendously fun and fulfilling book to write, and I worked hard to give readers new avenues of listening from the world over to investigate - hope you find your next great listen here!
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Wishing a happy 76th birthday to Brazilian physician Eliete Bouskela, whose research unveiled new ways of studying microcirculation to get at the bottom of what is happening when those systems go awry. We hope you have a good one, Dr. Bouskela!
#WomenInSTEM #MedSky #BioSky ๐งชโ๏ธ
Today's Women in Music Spotlight features Mary Lou Williams (1910-1981), the phenomenally talented jazz musician whose career as a performer, composer, and arranger spanned six decades. She was simply one of the most respected musicians of the 20th century.
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Wishing a happy 90th birthday to French nuclear physicist Monique Senรฉ, the first president of the Scientists for Nuclear Energy Information Association who has worked for decades for a more transparent and participatory discussion of nuclear energy in France.
#WomenInSTEM #Physics ๐งช
Today's Women in Music Spotlight falls upon my secret favorite woman composer of the 19th century, Emilie Mayer (1812-1883), the pharmacist's daughter who rose to become a composer of some of the century's most delightful and evergreen symphonies.
#MusicSky #BookSky ๐น๐
Book out now in the UK!
Celebrating the 100th anniversary of Fay Ajzenberg-Selove's birth! For four decades she was responsible for the collection and publication of the planet's most accurate and up-to-date data on the energy levels of the light elements. Here is her dramatic story!
tinyurl.com/ycyeamnx
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Today our Women in Music Spotlight falls on Carrie Jacobs-Bond (1862-1946), one of the most beloved American songwriters of the late 19th/early 20th century, who also established a highly successful music publishing company. We think it's high time for a Jacobs-Bond revival!
#MusicSky #BookSky ๐น๐
Mathematician Hanna Neumann was born 112 years ago today. Her 1967 text on Varieties of Groups is an absolute classic, and her efforts to re-inject pure mathematics into the British and Australian educational systems were widely recognized in her time.
tinyurl.com/5fre2ch3
#WomenInSTEM #MathSky ๐งฎ
For today's Women in Music Spotlight we look at Patsy Montana (1908-1996), one of the most popular performers on the early National Barn Dance broadcasts of the 1930s who pioneered the "cowgirl" type of country western singer.
#WomenInMusic #MusicSky #BookSky ๐น๐
Book out now in the UK!
Psychologist Bernice Neugarten was born 110 years ago today. She was a trailblazer in the 60s and 70s of the psychology of aging, combatting some of the West's more entrenched stereotypes of the process, and documenting the breadth of experience of the "young old" population.
#WomenInSTEM #PsychSky
Today's Women in Music Spotlight falls on Doris Norton, who crafted the legendary soundscapes of Jacula in the 1970s, and went on to a groundbreaking career in the early 1980s of producing computerized music. I recommend Personal Computer as a good starting point!
#MusicSky #BookSky ๐น
Agnes Clerke was born 184 years ago today. She was THE great astronomy communicator of the 19th century, known for books of great technical detail presenting the new world of spectroscopic analysis, but that were also highly approachable.
tinyurl.com/3bwwvzvc
#WomenInSTEM #AstroSky ๐ญ
Our founder, Dale DeBakcsy, has a new book out today - a history of the last two thousand years of women's contributions to music, from the depths of antiquity to the symphony hall to the punk scene to the whirling genre fusions of today. All profits go to keeping the Archive up and running and free
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Today we induct Ann Trow, better known as Madame Restell, into the Archive. For four decades in the 19th century she was reviled as the grand exemplar of the "lady abortionist" while her services were widely sought after by rich and poor alike.
tinyurl.com/ycyhj2mp
#WomenInSTEM #Abortion #MedSky โ๏ธ
Today's Women in Music Spotlight falls on Laura Logic, part of the groundbreaking punk band X-Ray Spex (1976-79), before forming Essential Logic (1978-81), which featured punk's madcap spirit melded with angular musical structures. Give it a listen!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Aya...
#MusicSky ๐น
Groundbreaking geneticist Ruth Sager was born 108 years ago yesterday. In the 1950s, she noticed non-Mendelian inheritance in algae she was studying, which led her to the discovery of non-nuclear genetic inheritance, though it took 18 years for her to be made a full professor.
#WomenInSTEM ๐งช๐งฌ
Quick Correction: her family headed out west when she was young - my brain temporarily crossed the early stories of Dr. Mary Babcock Atwater (who went to Utah to shed her husband) with Dr. Bethenia Owens-Adair because I was up way too late watching the Stray Kids movie. Lee Know forever!
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Today's Women In Music Spotlight falls on Saori Minami (b. 1956), one of the "Three Girls" who are considered the wellspring of the Idol movement in Japan. Here is a performance of hers from a few years after her 1971 debut!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FCq...
#WomenInMusic #JPop ๐น
Book coming Feb 28
Physician Bethenia Owens-Adair was born 186 years ago today. Fleeing her marriage, she headed West to become one of Oregon's premiere medical practitioners, but was also caught up in the eugenics movement. Here is her story, because we can't just do the fun ones.
tinyurl.com/436n22yf
#WomenInSTEM
Amphibian biologist Margaret Stewart would have been 99 years old today. Her globe-spanning career was spent researching the frog populations of Africa, the Caribbean, and North America, and studying the forces that put these populations in danger.
tinyurl.com/2cjmz8f7
#WomenInSTEM #BioSky ๐งช๐ธ
On today's Women In Music Spotlight, we look at the amazing Linda Perhacs, whose 1970 album Parallelograms took folk music into bold new sonic waters, but whose follow up album did not come for 44 years. Here is the haunting and gorgeous Chimacum Rain:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuYL...
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Brazilian botanist Terezinha Rego was born 93 years ago today. She devoted her career to the study of endangered rain forest plants that carried medicinal properties, and founded a 10,800 species herbarium at UFMA, where she taught in the 1980s.
#WomenInSTEM #Botany #PlantSky ๐งชโ๏ธ๐ฑ
Today's Women In Music Spotlight falls on Laurie Anderson (b. 1947), who fused experimental music and pop in the early 1980s to create some of the most distinct soundscapes of that era, including this, her 1981 hit O Superman:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vkfp...
#WomenInMusic #MusicSky ๐น
No birthdays on our Big Birthday List today so instead we'll do our regular reminder that any books you pick up in the Women In Science series have the profits put directly back into keeping the Archive up and running and free for educators and students to access!
#BookSky #WomenInSTEM #AstroSky ๐งฎโ๏ธ
Today's Women in Music Spotlight falls upon the figure of Isabella Leonarda (1620-1704), a prolific composer of sonatas and motets in the great 17th century tradition of women composers fostered in the musical environment of the convent system.
#WomenInMusic #Music #BookSky ๐น๐ต
Book coming Feb 28!
Elizabeth Blackwell was born 205 years ago today. The first woman to earn a modern medical degree, she was also responsible for constructing the first institutions that allowed women to gain experience in the medical field.
tinyurl.com/3mxw76hv
#WomenInSTEM #MedSky ๐งชโ๏ธ
