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@CarveHerName@mstdn.social · Apr 20, 2026
#OnThisDay, 20 Apr 1902, Maria Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie refine radium chlorine. The discovery leads to Marie being the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903. The committee had planned to only award the Nobel to Pierre and Henri. Committee member and Swedish mathematician Magnus Gösta Mittag-Leffler alerted Pierre Curie to the plan. Pierre insisted Marie also receive the prize. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomenInSTEM #NobelWomen #Histodons
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@gutenberg_org@mastodon.social · Apr 18, 2026
Before Computers Were Machines, They Were Women. Here Are Six Places Where Human Computers Built Modern Science From AT&T to NASA, women working as computers performed the calculations that made modern science possible. In the early 1900s, computing joined teaching and nursing as one of the few careers open to college-educated women, and it opened doors that few other professions could by Diana Turnbow https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/smithsonian-american-womens-history-museum/2026/04/06/before-computers-were-machines-they-were-womenhere-are-six-places-where-human-computers-built-modern-science/ #womeninstem #computerscience
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@gutenberg_org@mastodon.social · Apr 16, 2026
Eiffel Tower to gain symmetry with addition of women’s names Women will join men in being honored on the Paris icon. The inspiration for the gender parity came from student and Eiffel Tower tour guide Benjamin Rigaud. by Toni Feder https://physicstoday.aip.org/news/eiffel-tower-to-gain-symmetry-with-addition-of-womens-names A brochure with information about each of the women scientists is available here: https://www.femmesetsciences.fr/_files/ugd/10ca83_3838bd19a41a4e83927cfc8fe0f50404.pdf #womeninstem
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@minouette@spore.social · Apr 01, 2026
Happy birthday to French mathematician, physicist and philosopher Marie-Sophie Germain (1776 – 1831), known as Sophie. She taught herself mathematics using books in her father’s library and by corresponding with leading mathematicians of her day, including Lagrange, Legendre and Gauss, initially using the pseudonym Monsieur LeBlanc. Her work on elasticity theory won her the grand prize from the Paris Academy of Sciences. 🧵 #linocut #printmaking #sciart #mathematician #womenInSTEM #histsci
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@davidjamesweir@mementomori.social · Feb 11, 2026
Today is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. It’s important to remember that actively working towards a welcoming safe environment for everyone in science isn’t just the decent thing to do (I’d argue it’s the bare minimum), it also means we do better science! Take, for example, this study showing underrepresented groups innovate more than their peers (but their work is not taken up by the wider community): https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1915378117 #AcademicChatter #WomenInSTEM
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@minouette@spore.social · Dec 11, 2025
Day 11 #ArtAdventCalendar: Happy birthday to trailblazing US #astronomer Annie Jump Cannon (1863 – 1941), here with her stellar classification system which sorted stars based on spectral types, revealing their temperature from hot blue to cool red stars: O,B,A, F, G, K & M. Named the Harvard Classification after the university, her tremendous contribution was less visible. 🧵 #printmaking #womenInSTEM #histsci #DisabledInSTEM #linocut #mastoArt
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@CarveHerName@mstdn.social · Nov 28, 2025
#OnThisDay, 28 Nov 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovers the existence of pulsars. Not included in the 1974 Nobel prize for the discovery, Bell received a £3m prize for her work in 2018. She's used it to set up a foundation to improve the diversity in STEM. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInSTEM #Histodons
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