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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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Ele Willoughby, PhD

@minouette@spore.social · 2 months ago

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 🧵
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As described this is my linocut portrait of Bibha Chowdhuri, with a mountain range featuring Sandpakphu in front, sky with schematic of an extensive air shower behind her. She is a serious young Indian woman printed in purple ink with head and shoulders at a slight angle. The mountains are in a gradient of dark to light blue as we rise from the bottom of the page. The sky is a vivid gradient of colour like at dawn with a yellow umber through orange, pink, magenta and blue as it rises behind her and the mountains. Carved away in white is a near vertical line at the top branching repeatedly like a tree into straight, dashed and wiggly lines to indicate a particle cascade.

Ele Willoughby, PhD

@minouette@spore.social · 2 months ago

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