#Tag · bonfire.cafe

Alex, the Hearth Fire and 4 others boosted

#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

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

Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉 and 1 other boosted

Ele Willoughby, PhD

@minouette@spore.social · 2 months ago

Another scientist in my collection with an unknown birthday is one of the earliest recorded women in science, Peseshet. She is described in the elaborate Saqqara tomb of her son Akhethotep,a royal official and overseer of priests, who lived during the Fifth Dynasty around 2400 BCE. She is described as the “Overseer of the Women Physicians.”

🧵1/

#mastoArt #linocut #sciart #printmaking #histsci #histmed #medicine #Peseshet #AncientEgypt #hieroglyphics

This is my linocut portrait of Peseshet, the earliest named woman in the history of science or medicine. She is described in the elaborate Saqqara tomb of her son Akhethotep,a royal official and overseer of priests, who lived during the Fifth Dynasty around 2400 BCE. She is described as the "Overseer of the Women Physicians." This linocut was printed by hand, using three blocks, in black, bronze, indigo and magenta ink on white Japanese kozo paper, 11" by 14" (27.9 cm by 35.6 cm). I have shown her dispensing medicine, with hieroglyphics spelling out her name (horizontally) and indicating that she was "wer snwnt per aa" or chief doctor (who happened to be female) of the great house (or palace).

Ele Willoughby, PhD

@minouette@spore.social · 2 months ago

🧵1/

#mastoArt #linocut #sciart #printmaking #histsci #histmed #medicine #Peseshet #AncientEgypt #hieroglyphics