Happy birthday to Russian #mathematician & writer Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevski (1850-1891). Her contributions to analysis, differential equations & mechanics include Cauchy-Kovalevski theorem & the famed Kovalevski top. She was 1st woman appointed to full prof in N Europe or to serve as editor of a major sci journal. She is also remembered for her contributions to Russian literature. All of this despite living when women were 🧵

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Happy birthday to Russian #mathematician & writer Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevski (1850-1891). Her contributions to analysis, differential equations & mechanics include Cauchy-Kovalevski theorem & the famed Kovalevski top. She was 1st woman appointed to full prof in N Europe or to serve as editor of a major sci journal. She is also remembered for her contributions to Russian literature. All of this despite living when women were 🧵

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This is an interesting read if you are intrigued by quantum theory. https://www.newscientist.com/article/2509985-our-elegant-universe-rethinking-natures-deepest-principle/

I learned in the article about two influential women in #physics: German Jewish mathematician Emmy Noether who established the foundations of symmetry in 1918. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Noether

And Mexican physicist Ivette Fuentes who is currently leading research into entanglement, among other things. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivette_Fuentes

"Unlike many other prominent physicists, Fuentes rejected financial support from Jeffrey Epstein, citing ethical reasons." 💯

#Math #Science #WomenInSTEM

#OnThisDay, 7 Jan 1939, French physicist Marguerite Perey discovers element 87, which she later names francium. It was the last element to be discovered naturally.

Perey was a student of Maria Skłodowska-Curie. She was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize but never received it.

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

#OnThisDay, 7 Jan 1939, French physicist Marguerite Perey discovers element 87, which she later names francium. It was the last element to be discovered naturally.

Perey was a student of Maria Skłodowska-Curie. She was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize but never received it.

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

Starting 2026 with some unknown birthdays: Margaret Lucas Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1623 – 1673), 17th-century English aristocrat, philosopher, poet, scientist, writer, with her imaginary world from her strange sci-fi novel ‘The Blazing World’ which she appended to her treatise ‘Observations upon Experimental Philosophy’. An odd addition to my collection of scientists, 🧵

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#printmaking #womenInSTEM #histsci #scifi #naturalPhilosophy #MargaretCavendish

For the #PrinterSolstice2526 prompt ‘even’ -the number of quarks in a meson, a type of particle first observed & published by Bibha Chowdhuri (1913-1991) & her supervisor D.M. Bose in extensive air showers from cosmic rays. My portrait shows her, a mountain on which she gathered her data & a schematic of the cascade of particles we find in cosmic rays.

Born in Kolkata, her family’s Bramohist faith quite unusually 🧵
#womenInSTEM #histsci #particlePhysics #physics #cosmicRays #mastoArt

For the #PrinterSolstice2526 prompt ‘even’ -the number of quarks in a meson, a type of particle first observed & published by Bibha Chowdhuri (1913-1991) & her supervisor D.M. Bose in extensive air showers from cosmic rays. My portrait shows her, a mountain on which she gathered her data & a schematic of the cascade of particles we find in cosmic rays.

Born in Kolkata, her family’s Bramohist faith quite unusually 🧵
#womenInSTEM #histsci #particlePhysics #physics #cosmicRays #mastoArt

My lino block print portrait for #PrinterSolstice prompt addition shows the amateur pioneering American scientist, inventor & women's rights advocate Eunice Newton Foote (1819-1888) who did the earliest experiments to show the insulating effect of certain gases & correctly concluded that increasing carbon dioxide levels would affect atmospheric temperature and climate, which we now call the Greenhouse Effect. 🧵

#linocut #printmaking #womenInSTEM #HistSci #climateScience #mastoArt

#OnThisDay, 31 Dec 2011, Prof. Maria Zuber’s GRAIL A spacecraft successfully entered orbit around the Moon. GRAIL B arrived two days later.

Better known as Ebb and Flow, they flew in tandem around the moon to precisely measure and map variations in the moon's gravitational field.

#WomenInSTEM

#OnThisDay, 31 Dec 2011, Prof. Maria Zuber’s GRAIL A spacecraft successfully entered orbit around the Moon. GRAIL B arrived two days later.

Better known as Ebb and Flow, they flew in tandem around the moon to precisely measure and map variations in the moon's gravitational field.

#WomenInSTEM

My lino block print portrait for #PrinterSolstice prompt addition shows the amateur pioneering American scientist, inventor & women's rights advocate Eunice Newton Foote (1819-1888) who did the earliest experiments to show the insulating effect of certain gases & correctly concluded that increasing carbon dioxide levels would affect atmospheric temperature and climate, which we now call the Greenhouse Effect. 🧵

#linocut #printmaking #womenInSTEM #HistSci #climateScience #mastoArt

Day 11 #ArtAdventCalendar: Happy birthday to trailblazing US #astronomer Annie Jump Cannon (1863 – 1941), here with her stellar classification system which sorted stars based on spectral types, revealing their temperature from hot blue to cool red stars: O,B,A, F, G, K & M. Named the Harvard Classification after the university, her tremendous contribution was less visible. 🧵

#printmaking #womenInSTEM #histsci #DisabledInSTEM #linocut #mastoArt

Happy birthday to self-taught trail-blazing Irish #marineBiologist Maude Delap (1866 – 1953), 1st to successfully breed jellyfish in captivity & document their full lifecycle. She is surrounded by blue #jellyfish (Cyanea lamarckii) life stages based on her diagrams.

Born 7th of 10 kids to Rev Alexander & Anna Jane Delap in County Donegal, her family to Valentia Island when she was 8. 🧵1/

#womenInSTEM #printmaking #linocut #artAdventCalendar #histsci #mastoArt

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"Et ce n'est pas de moi, hein ! C'est de Grace Hopper !"
#WomeninSTEM #histsci #histtech
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eyFDBPk4Yw