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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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Linocut print of Chien-shiung Wu in indigo wearing a lab coat and holding a schematic diagram of her famous violation of parity experiment (in blue and indigo) on the left side. The right side shows the mirror image except in the schematic diagram. The left side schematic shows a C shaped electromagnet open to the left. The top is labeled S, the bottom is labeled N and the middle is wrapped in wire drawn as a circuit diagram schematic with parallel lines to indicate a power source and left arrow on top wire, right arrow on bottom. Between the poles of the magnet is a big blue dot to designate Cobalt-60 with many tiny dots as beta-decay electrons, the majority going downwards to N pole. On the right, everything is flipping except most electrons go upwards (and and N and S poles are flipped).

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Ele Willoughby, PhD

@minouette@spore.social · last week

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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Linocut portrait of Queen Seondeok of Silla with elaborate medieval Korean crown and heavy beaded necklace in gold, red and blue robes, at night with starry black sky with white and grey moon and the grey Tower of Cheomseogdae behind her.

Ele Willoughby, PhD

@minouette@spore.social · last week

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

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Ele Willoughby, PhD

@minouette@spore.social · 2 weeks ago

#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 🧵

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My linocut portrait of Marie Maynard Daly in purples (she’s a young smiling Black woman, wearing earrings, a necklace and a dress, looking at the viewer over her shoulder). Above her to the right is an anatomical heart with a blowout diagram in a circle of a clogged artery and the cholesterol molecule all in red. Next to her on the left in blue are the molecules of the bases which make up DNA and a diagram of a human cell.

Ele Willoughby, PhD

@minouette@spore.social · 2 weeks ago

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

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Ele Willoughby, PhD

@minouette@spore.social · 3 weeks ago

#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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My linocut portrait of astronaut Mae Jemison in her flight suit, holding her helmet, with the globe of Earth above and to left.

Ele Willoughby, PhD

@minouette@spore.social · 3 weeks ago

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Ele Willoughby, PhD

@minouette@spore.social · 3 weeks ago

For #printerSolstice2526 prompt division here is my #linocut portrait of Agnes Pockels (1862-1935), the self-taught scientist who pioneered surface science.

As a woman she did not get the chance to go to university & study physics like her theoretical physicist brother Friedrich, who discovered the Pockels effect. So at 18 she took her "passionate interest for natural science" to her household chores &
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My Lino block portrait of Agnes Pockels holding her pen and notebook by her trough (which was 70 cm by 5 cm and 2 cm deep, with a ruler along its length and a sliding divider). There is a button attached to an apothecary scale in the through so she can measure surface tension. She has her hair up and wears a dress and a cross on a necklace. She is surrounded by soap bubbles and you can see text in reverse for the Pockels point, 20 angstroms squared. She is in a gradient of dark forest green to lime from the base of the print upwards. The text, bubbles, and swirling patterns in the soap film in the front of her through are in pale pinkish purple.

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Jennifer Lynn Bartlett

@BartlettAstro@scicomm.xyz · 4 weeks ago

That moment when you return from travel & discover a mysterious box of astronomical photographic plates occupying your desk.

love my job @SciXCommunity

#astronomy #astrophotography #photography #histsci

Jennifer Lynn Bartlett

@BartlettAstro@scicomm.xyz · 4 weeks ago

That moment when you return from travel & discover a mysterious box of astronomical photographic plates occupying your desk.

love my job @SciXCommunity

#astronomy #astrophotography #photography #histsci

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Ele Willoughby, PhD

@minouette@spore.social · 4 weeks ago

Happy birthday to Kathleen Lonsdale DBE FRS (née Yardley, 1903-1971) who solved a longstanding #chemistry conundrum of the shape of benzene, here with her drawing of electron density for hexachlorobenzene (green) & model of hexamethylbenzene explore shape in different forms. Her husband said, “Before prison it might have bothered her to go to Buckingham Palace. Afterwards, Holloway or Buckingham Palace were all the same.” 🧵
https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/1399683976

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My linocut with portrait of Kathleen Lonsdale in gradient of lavender at the bottom to indigo at the top. She looks like a serious woman with a big mop of curly hair, round glasses, in a floral shirt and blazer. To her left is her own first drawing of electron density projection calculated for hexachlorobenzene. In front of her in black is her own one crystal model of hexamethylbenzene (with spheres for atoms and bars to indicate bonds or for structure and a small tag).

Ele Willoughby, PhD

@minouette@spore.social · 4 weeks ago

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@minouette@spore.social · last month

Above the hotel is a glowing infinity symbol. The size of countably infinite sets, like all natural numbers {1,2,3, .... ∞ } is denoted by Aleph Nought ℵ0 shown on the two flags.

Each print is printed by hand in indigo, lavendar, mint green and dark navy blue ink on Japanese kozo (or mulberry) paper, 8” x 10” (20.3 cm by 25.4 cm).

#linocut #sciart #mathart #histsci #mathematics #printmaking #HilbertsGrandHotel #DavidHilbert #infinity #paradox 🧵3/3