Happy birthday #physicist Chien-shiung Wu (1912-1997), who came up with a truly beautiful experiment to test whether the weak force conserves parity (whether beta decay would be the same if reflected in the mirror)! In my print on the left I show Wu in her lab & a schematic diagram of her experiment. On the right I show her reflection, as in the mirror, & the mirror reflection of the experimental set-up & the shocking result, 🧵1/n

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Queen Seondeok of Silla (c. 595 ~ 610 - 647), 27th ruler of one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea, from 632-647, who brought about a renaissance in culture and science and built the Cheomseongdae moon and star-gazing observatory. This is the anniversary of her death.

Known for her intelligence, wisdom & benevolence, stories survive of her curiosity & cleverness even as a child. 🧵
https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/715048000

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Queen Seondeok of Silla (c. 595 ~ 610 - 647), 27th ruler of one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea, from 632-647, who brought about a renaissance in culture and science and built the Cheomseongdae moon and star-gazing observatory. This is the anniversary of her death.

Known for her intelligence, wisdom & benevolence, stories survive of her curiosity & cleverness even as a child. 🧵
https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/715048000

#linocut #printmaking #sciart #histsci #womenInSTEM #Seondeok #mastoArt

Happy birthday to Marjorie Rice (née Jeuck, 1923–2017) who discovered 4 new pentagonal tilings of the Euclidian plane!

The San Diego mother of 5 (6th died in infancy) completed half a correspondence art course after high school & had no training as a #mathematician but was always interested in #math & art. She began to follow SciAm writer/amateur mathematician Martin Gardner’s column, … 🧵

https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/1413024426

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Happy birthday to Marjorie Rice (née Jeuck, 1923–2017) who discovered 4 new pentagonal tilings of the Euclidian plane!

The San Diego mother of 5 (6th died in infancy) completed half a correspondence art course after high school & had no training as a #mathematician but was always interested in #math & art. She began to follow SciAm writer/amateur mathematician Martin Gardner’s column, … 🧵

https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/1413024426

#womenInSTEM #printmaking #mathematics #linocut #mastoArt

#BlackHistoryMonth is a great time to celebrate #biochemist Marie Maynard Daly (1921-2003), 1st Black woman to earn a PhD in #chemistry in the US! She made important research contributions to our understanding of the biochemisty of the cell nucleus & cardiovascular issues & the chemistry of histones & protein synthesis. She established that “no bases other than adenine, guanine, thymine, and cytosine were 🧵

#womenInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #histsci #printmaking #linocut #histmed #mastoArt

#BlackHistoryMonth is a great time to celebrate #biochemist Marie Maynard Daly (1921-2003), 1st Black woman to earn a PhD in #chemistry in the US! She made important research contributions to our understanding of the biochemisty of the cell nucleus & cardiovascular issues & the chemistry of histones & protein synthesis. She established that “no bases other than adenine, guanine, thymine, and cytosine were 🧵

#womenInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #histsci #printmaking #linocut #histmed #mastoArt

Today is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science.

It’s important to remember that actively working towards a welcoming safe environment for everyone in science isn’t just the decent thing to do (I’d argue it’s the bare minimum), it also means we do better science!

Take, for example, this study showing underrepresented groups innovate more than their peers (but their work is not taken up by the wider community):

https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1915378117

#AcademicChatter #WomenInSTEM

Today is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science.

It’s important to remember that actively working towards a welcoming safe environment for everyone in science isn’t just the decent thing to do (I’d argue it’s the bare minimum), it also means we do better science!

Take, for example, this study showing underrepresented groups innovate more than their peers (but their work is not taken up by the wider community):

https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1915378117

#AcademicChatter #WomenInSTEM

#OnThisDay, 10 Feb 1917, plant pathologist Johanna Westerdijk becomes the first woman appointed as a professor in the Netherlands when she joins Utrecht University.

Two of her PhD students, Bea Schwarz and then Christine Buisman, identified the fungus causing a disease in elm trees. They were building on Dina Spierenburg's work which had identified it as a new disease.

Hence it being called Dutch Elm disease.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInSTEM #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 10 Feb 1917, plant pathologist Johanna Westerdijk becomes the first woman appointed as a professor in the Netherlands when she joins Utrecht University.

Two of her PhD students, Bea Schwarz and then Christine Buisman, identified the fungus causing a disease in elm trees. They were building on Dina Spierenburg's work which had identified it as a new disease.

Hence it being called Dutch Elm disease.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInSTEM #Histodons

#BlackHistoryMonth is a great time to celebrate astronaut Mae Carol Jemison (born October 17, 1956) a physician who became the first Black woman to travel in space when she went into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour for NASA, on September 12, 1992! She also has a B.S. in chemical engineering, served in the Peace Corps, is a dancer and choreographer, 🧵

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