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Happy birthday to #mathematician & geodesist Gladys West (née Brown 1930)! Shown with 3 satellites important to her career + tracks: Seasat, GEOS-3 & a GPS satellite. Her work, using math to precisely model the shape of Earth, laid the groundwork for GPS! Born to sharecropper parents in Virginia, she graduated with a Math BSc in ‘52 then MSc at VSU in ‘55. She started her career at 🧵

#spacetober_challenge Earth
#linocut #printmaking #womenInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #histsci #EarthSci #Math #mastoArt

My linocut portrait of Gladys West with 3 satellites important to her career in indigo in from of world map with satellites tracks in blue.

Ele Willoughby, PhD

@minouette@spore.social · 4 days ago

#spacetober_challenge Earth
#linocut #printmaking #womenInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #histsci #EarthSci #Math #mastoArt

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Ele Willoughby, PhD

@minouette@spore.social · last year

Happy birthday to #mathematician, aeronautical #engineer, philanthropist and Cherokee ‘hidden figure’ of the space race: Mary Golda Ross (1908-2008).⁠
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Great-great-granddaughter of Chief John Ross, who was forced to lead his people on the Trail of Tears, Ross attributed her success in math to the Cherokee tradition of encouraging equal education for boys and girls.
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#printmaking #sciart #womenInSTEM #Indigineer #SpaceRace #planetaryScience #linocut

Linocut portrait of Mary Golda Ross looking over her shoulder in a gradient of green (at bottom) to gold (at top) surrounded by vehicles important to her career including P-38 Lighting fighter plane, and Agena rocket, important to Apollo missions in grey.

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Ele Willoughby, PhD

@minouette@spore.social · 3 months ago

Happy birthday to trailblazing American computer scientist Frances Elizabeth Allen (1932 – 2020) who made foundational contributions to optimizing compilers, optimizing programs and parallel computing. She was the first woman to become an IBM Fellow, where she worked from 1957 to 2002 and as an emeritus fellow afterwards. She was the first woman to win the Turing Prize.

IBM Research was recruiting teachers 🧵1/n

#printmaking #womenInSTEM #histSci #mathematician #sciart #compsci #mastoArt

My linocut in blue of Fran Allen (woman with short hair, glasses, smiling at viewer) surrounded by green optimization diagrams (with lines, arrows and labels) from her famous 1971 paper.

Ele Willoughby, PhD

@minouette@spore.social · 3 months ago

IBM Research was recruiting teachers 🧵1/n

#printmaking #womenInSTEM #histSci #mathematician #sciart #compsci #mastoArt

Ele Willoughby, PhD

@minouette@spore.social · 10 months ago

Another unknown birthday: Amongst the earliest recorded woman in #mathematics, Hypatia lived during the 4th century AD in Alexandria, Egypt, which was part of the Roman Empire. She was born at some time between about 350 and 370 and died in 415 C.E. She taught philosophy, #astronomy and mathematics at a NeoPlatonist school. She believed in empiricism and natural law. 🧵1/n

#sciart #linocut #printmaking #womeninstem #geometry #histsci #astrolabe #MastoArt

My linocut portrait of Hypatia in purple holding an astrolabe up to her eye with her left arm while her right rests on geometric diagrams on sheets of paper on her table. Astrolabe and table plus diagrams are bronze in colour. I’ve shown her with curly hair piled up on her head, in a loose tunic with sash. Behind her are two Doric columns and arch.

Ele Willoughby, PhD

@minouette@spore.social replied · 10 months ago

She was the daughter of a famous #mathematician, Theon Alexandricus (ca. 335–405), with whom she worked & published edited versions of Classical texts in mathematics. She also pursued her education in Athens & Italy before returning to Alexandria.⠀
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It is difficult to precisely specify her own contributions to math, since many documents have been lost (the Library of Alexandria 🧵2/n