#female scientists

[eyesfullofmoon]

"Group of young women performing atmospheric pressure experiments while studying science in school, Washington, D.C."

Photographed by Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1899.

#1890s #women #old photos #* #frances benjamin johnston #19th century #old photography #antique #b&w #science #scientists #female scientists #vintage #black and white #women of history #women in history #victorian era #victorian photography #victorian fashion #victorian style #female photographers #women in photography #historic photographs #vintage photography

[coming-of-age-witch]

Ngl but the female scientists make me so happy like it's so admiringg, i am spellbound, I am hypnotized, I am inspired 😭😭😭 this inspires me so much, I'm just a little girl in front of the tv admiring all of them, this tells me so muchh

#chandrayaan 3 #female scientists #isro #desiblr #desi academia #indian academia #desi stuff #women in stem #women in science #stem academia #steminist #scientists #stem student #stemblr

[rainbow-baby-one]

Women in Science Sweatshirt!

A classic sweatshirt for all the amazing women in science!

#women in science #science teacher #science #female scientists #stem #chemistry #engineering #math #steam

[luminalunii97]

Maryam Mirzakhani, first woman to win Fields medal in mathematics

Maryam Mirzakhani was one of the greatest mathematicians of her generation. She made monumental contributions to the study of the dynamics and geometry of mathematical objects called Riemann surfaces. Just as impressive as her theorems was her ability to push a field in a new direction by always providing a fresh point of view. Her raw talent was rare, even among the most celebrated mathematicians, and she was known for having a taste for difficult problems. -Kasra Rafi, Nature journal

For many Iranian women in STEM, she is a light and a role model. She's the deity we all look up to every time we get disheartened. But for the regime she was just a woman. Veil first, being treated like a human being next. To the point that when she passed away, due to breast cancer, IRIB and many regime newspapers who covered her passing news, photoshopped her photo to put obligatory hijab on her head. They tried to name her achievements as their own even though one of the main reasons she left Iran was because of how lowly intelligence was treated by this government.

Today was her birth date. RIP to the woman who is the symbol of mathematics in Iran.

#iran #politics #human rights #feminism #maryam mirzakhani #middle eastern women #women in stem #mathematics #mathematician #women #women life freedom #female scientists #women in science #nature journal #iranian women #iranian #middle east

[womeninfictionandirl]

Jane Goodall by Eric C. Lin

#Eric c lin #Eric c. lin #jane goodall #art #artwork #irl women/girls #environmentalists #zoologists #women in stem #science #female scientists #activists #environmental activism #animals #chimpanzee

[radykalny-feminizm]

Hedy Lamarr (born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler; November 9, 1914 – January 19, 2000) was an Austro-Hungarian-born American actress and technology inventor. She was a film star during Hollywood's Golden Age.

Although Lamarr had no formal training and was primarily self-taught, she invested her spare time, including on set between takes, in designing and drafting inventions, which included an improved traffic stoplight and a tablet that would dissolve in water to create a flavored carbonated drink.

During the late 1930s, Lamarr attended arms deals with her then-husband arms dealer Fritz Mandl, "possibly to improve his chances of making a sale." From the meetings, she learned that navies needed "a way to guide a torpedo as it raced through the water." Radio control had been proposed. However, an enemy might be able to jam such a torpedo's guidance system and set it off course. When later discussing this with a new friend, composer and pianist George Antheil, her idea to prevent jamming by frequency hopping met Antheil's previous work. In that earlier work, Antheil attempted synchronizing note-hopping in an avart-garde piece involving multiple synchronized player pianos. Antheil's idea in the piece was to synchronize the start time of identical player pianos with identical player piano rolls, so the pianos would be playing in time with one another. Together, they realized that radio frequencies could be changed similarly, using the same kind of mechanism, but miniaturized.

Based on the strength of the initial submission of their ideas to the National Inventors Council (NIC) in late December 1940, in early 1941 the NIC introduced Antheil to Samuel Stuart Mackeown, Professor of Electrical Engineering at Caltech, to consult on the electrical systems.

Lamarr hired the Los Angeles legal firm of Lyon & Lyon to search for prior art, and to draft the application for the patent which was granted as U.S. Patent 2,292,387 on August 11, 1942, under her legal name Hedy Kiesler Markey.

In 1997, Lamarr and Antheil received the Electronic Frontier Foundation Pioneer Award and the Bulbie Gnass Spirit of Achievement Bronze Award, given to individuals whose creative lifetime achievements in the arts, sciences, business, or invention fields have significantly contributed to society.

In 2014, Lamarr and Antheil were posthumously inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.

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[empress-alexandra]

Maria Skłodowska-Curie, 1903.

#Maria Skłodowska-Curie #marie curie #nobel prize #nobel prize winner #polish #women scientists #female scientists #scientists #1900s #1903 #1900s fashion #history colored #colored photography

[alvawingsworks]

Dr. Necrotica, an original character, heavily inspired by Psychonauts (2005)

Fully-traditional, precolor version below:

#mixed media #fanart #oc #original character #psychonauts #mad scientist #mad science #female scientists #cyborg

[jeonyeogstudies]

#studyblr #studying #studyspo #pink pilates princess #smart and pretty #pink academia #academia barbie #study like granger #study like a ravenclaw #pink #pink aesthetic #women in stem #pink scientist #feminine beauty #female scientists #science #biology studies #study biology #haruki murakami #books #pretty girls study hard #hotgirlsarenerds

[gomedorgohome]

September reads 📚🍂

#studyblr #studyspo #inspiration #bioblr #sciblr #science reading #science books #phd studyblr #scientists who read #scicomm #women in science #female scientists

[autistictortoise]

Are other fellow female science students so painfully aware of their future choices with no right option and sacrifices they will have to make?

Like, I always knew I wanted to get married and have kids. But at the same time I want to have a good career in science, maybe start my own research group someday. I will start university next school year and I dread the time I find myself the love I desire. Because then my career prospects will be altered by the fact I fell in love with a man. If I have the opportunity to go abroad, what will I do if he doesn't want to? How does one find a male partner willing to support you in your chase after your dreams?

I so much fear the day I have to choose a man/family I love or my scientific career. Because I will feel miserable no matter what I choose. I am scared I will fall in love with someone who will force me to make that choice. At the same time I don't want to stay alone

#women in science #science #female scientists #does anybody understand me?

[katiajewelbox]

Meet more notable women in plant biology during Women's History Month 2024.

Anna Atkins

One of the first female photographers was also a botanist. Although she did not attend college, Anna Atkins (16 March 1799 – 9 June 1871) received her scientific education from her chemist father John George Children. As an adult, she pursued her curiosity about plants by collecting and drying specimens of land plants and seaweed which she used to create educational and artistic “photograms” using cyanotype photographic paper. She self-published the book containing photographic illustrations, entitled “ Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions” in 1843. She was also elected as a member of the London Botanical Society.

Miriam Rothschild

Curiosity about nature and collecting came naturally to Miriam Rothschild ( 5 August 1908 – 20 January 2005)– after all she was the niece of the eccentric Lionel Walter Rothschild who created a natural history museum stuffed with specimens from around the world at Tring in the UK. Her long and eventful life included campaigning for the rights of animals, children, people with mental illness, and LGBTQ people as well as innovative scientific research on entomology, particularly chemical ecology and mimicry. Her botanical connection is her research on how Monarch butterfly larvae’s toxicity is derived from chemicals in the milkweed which they feed on.

#katia_plantscientist#womeninscience#womeninstem#womeninbotany#womeninsplantscience#womeninbiology#annaatkins#miriamrothschild#photography#algae#entomology#chemicalecology#botany#plantbiology#plantscience#history#womenshistorymonth

#katia plant scientist #botany #plant biology #plants #plant science #women in science #women in stem #women in biology #women scientists #female scientists #womens history #women's history month #historical figures #anna atkins #miriam rothschild #ecology #photography

[bpod-bpod]

Almost Invisible

Past social and economic pressures made it nearly impossible for women to be artists. Virginia Woolf concluded that poems signed 'anonymous' were probably written by women. In science, contributions of women and ethnic minorities have also been erased from history. Alice Ball, born on this day in 1892, was nearly forgotten. Although she died aged 24, she had a remarkable career. Likely the first Black American to publish in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, she was the first woman to earn a master’s from the University of Hawaii. Most importantly, Ball developed an injectable form of an extract from chaulmoogra tree (pictured) seeds – making it the most effective leprosy treatment for two decades. After her death, the president of the College of Hawaii claimed Ball’s research as his own. Fortunately, historians rediscovered Ball’s story in the 1970s and restored her credit. But how many more brilliant scientists have been pushed to the margins of history?

Written by Henry Stennett

Portrait of Alice Ball (unknown photographer) in the Public Domain. Chaulmoogra fruit image by Anoopmail Wikipedia

Fruit image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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#science #biomedicine #leprosy #virginia woolf #chaulmoogra #black scientists #female scientists #born on this day

[womeninfictionandirl]

Jocelyn Bell Burnell by Allison Adams

"If we assume we've arrived, we stop searching, we stop developing."

Dr. Jocelyn Bell Burnell (born 1943) is an acclaimed Irish astrophysicist, who was among the few women to pursue a career in science at the time. As a graduate student, she discovered pulsars (a highly magnetized, rotating neutron star or white dwarf, that emits a beam of electromagnetic radiation) but was snubbed for the Nobel Peace Prize, most likely due to her sex. But she went on to enjoy a life filled with many honors in her field. Bell Burnell was president of the Royal Astronomical Society, president of the Institute of Physics, president of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and Pro-Chancellor of the University of Dublin.

#Jocelyn bell burnell #Allison adams #art #artwork #female scientists #women in history #herstory #women in stem #women in science #astrophysics #astrophysicists #irl women/girls

[radykalny-feminizm]

I hate academia wtf

Please professor, tell me how the fact that I have an uterus makes me less capable of being a scientist

#since you got your degree #and know every fucking thing #Harvard #academia #misogyny #sexism #radfem #radical feminism #radfem safe #radblr #radfems do interact #radfems do touch #feminism #women in stem #women in science #female scientists

[struggling-academic]

I met with some very cool people today to discuss their new research project about parasite-animal-human relationships, which hopes to touch on social and biological anthropology, primatology, veterinary medicine, human medicine and others. It's genuinely one of the most amazing projects I've heard about recently and I'm thrilled to (hopefully) be a part of it.

For my fellow scientists, please suggest your favorite books, research papers, anything really on the subject of parasites from any point of view!! I'd really appreciate it.

#parasitology #parasites #anthropology #social anthropology #biology #primates #primatology #physical anthropology #veterinary #vet med #medicine #multidisciplinary #science #nature #help a young scientist out please #academia #academics #the future is multidisciplinary #female scientists