On today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight, we celebrate Hiromi Uehara (b. 1989), the jazz pianist and composer who has brought fresh life into the form through her dazzling recordings and projects from her debut album Another Mind (2002) to her work on the Blue Giant anime score.
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Botanist Inez Clare Verdoorn was born 130 years ago today. Through her over 200 publications and 4000 collected specimens, she played a major role in revising the genera of South Africa, continuing to work unpaid at the herbarium after her retirement.
#WomenInSTEM #PlantSky #Botany 🌱
Wishing a happy 72nd birthday to neuroscientist Adele Diamond, whose work has been foundational in establishing the prefrontal cortex's role in the development of executive functioning in children.
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On today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight we remember Marie Antier (1687-1747), the soprano who paved the way for the mega-star French singers of the later 18th century through her thirty year, eighty role spanning career from 1711 through to 1741.
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Indian virologist Asha Mathur was born 88 years ago today. She authored over 170 papers in her lifetime, shedding particular light on how Japanese Encephalitis Virus (JEV) infects hosts, how the body responds to it, and how it engages with the placental barrier.
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I'd never heard of her before, good article! Looks like her memoir is on Gutenberg: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73499
On today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight we reverently bow before the genius of Argentinian pianist Martha Argerich, who celebrated her 85th birthday last week. An absolute titan of the piano, her renditions of Rachmaninov and Prokofiev set new standards for precision, fire, and expression.
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Today we are pleased to induct Susie King Taylor (1848-1912) into the #WomenInScience Archive. Receiving her education through Georgia's underground school system, she served with the 33rd US Colored Troops during the Civil War as a nurse, munitions handler, and crack shot.
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On today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight we celebrate Meredith Monk (b. 1942), whose experiments with voice and dance push listeners into a place of thought by confronting them with the raw strangeness of human sound and movement.
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There are no pictures of plant pathologist Margaret Keay, who was born 115 years ago today, but she lives on in memory. Born in South Africa, educated in England, she spent her career in Uganda and Nigeria, researching plant diseases and starting programs to fund the education of African girls.
On April 10, 1862, Union brigadier general Quincy Gillmore asked for the surrender of the Confederate stronghold, Fort Pulaski. When they refused, he used his newly arrived rifled cannons to decimate ...
Today we are pleased to induct Susie King Taylor (1848-1912) into the #WomenInScience Archive. Receiving her education through Georgia's underground school system, she served with the 33rd US Colored Troops during the Civil War as a nurse, munitions handler, and crack shot.
tinyurl.com/58puyzd4
On April 10, 1862, Union brigadier general Quincy Gillmore asked for the surrender of the Confederate stronghold, Fort Pulaski. When they refused, he used his newly arrived rifled cannons to decimate ...
