6/10/1822 — b. Lydia White Shattuck, American botanist, chemist, naturalist, professor. Prominent wmn in U.S. botanical+natural hist studies; prof, MountHolyoke Seminary(1851); member, WoodsHole Biological Laboratory Corp(1889) #womenshistory #HistSci #WomenInSTEM #PlantSky #ChemSky #SciSky #EduSky
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Only a fragment, yet it still stops you in your tracks: A small survival from Amarna, where art got radically, gloriously strange under Akhenaten.
Dating to around 1353–1336 BC
📷 Metropolitan Museum
Celebrating Sylvia Earle on #WorldOceansDay!
Earle--a marine biologist, oceanographer, and National Geographic explorer-in-residence since 1998--was:
+ The first female chief scientist of NOAA
+ Named by TIME magazine as its first Hero for the Planet 1998
#WomenInSTEM #oceanography #HerDeepness
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6/5/1646 — b. Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Italian mathematician, prodigy, philosopher, lecturer, musician. The first woman to receive a university degree, and the first woman to receive a Doctor of Philosophy degree #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #MathSky #HistMath #SciSky #HistSci #AcademicSky
6/8/1903 — b. Jessie Bernard, American sociologist, scholar, author. Influential researcher and a pioneering scholar of #feminist thought in American sociology. Groundbreaking advancements in sociology on women, sex, and marriage #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #AcademicSky #sociology #SciSky #HistSci
6/12/1802 — b. Harriet Martineau, English sociologist, economist, journalist, writer, feminist. The first female sociologist; a founder of modern #sociology and a key figure in the development of modern thought. Wrote 50+ books, close to 2k articles #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #womenwriters #HistSci
6/9/1887 — b. Gertrude Muller, American inventor, businesswoman. The inventor of the “toidey seat”, and other infant and young childcare products. She was also an early developer of child safety seats for automobiles #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #Inventors #SciSky #HistSci #childcare #safety
6/4/1912 — b. Elizabeth Close, American architect. Influential modern Midwest architect; the co-designer of many notable public buildings, and over 300 custom homes in the Twin Cities area #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #Minneapolis #architecture #building #infrastructure #design #SciSky #HistSci
6/11/1942 — b. Maxine Baca Zinn, American sociologist, researcher, author, professor. Leading expert in the fields of family, gender + ethnicity; one of an elite group of female sociologists. Authored many publications #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #sociology #SciSky #HistSci #womenwriters #FamilySky
Il y a presque un siècle, deux scientifiques entêtées réussirent à produire le premier vaccin contre la coqueluche.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/unsung-heroes-ended-deadly-plague-180979547/
#histsci #histmed #WomenInSTEM
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How a team of fearless American women overcame medical skepticism to stop whooping cough, a vicious infectious disease, and save countless lives
