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7️⃣9️⃣ Ida Smedley-MacLean (1877-1944) 🇬🇧 #womeninSTEM The first woman admitted to the London Chemical Society. She made a major contribution to the advancement of other women scientists, while gaining a reputation for her work on the role and synthesis of fatty acids. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Mac...

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7️⃣8️⃣ Alexandra Gros (1987- ) 🇫🇷 #womeninSTEM @agros.bsky.social Her research focused on the role of hippocampal neurogenesis in learning & memory processes. A tireless fighter against scientific misinformation, now in charge of Communication & Scientific Culture at INSERM news.cnrs.fr/authors/alex...

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7️⃣7️⃣ Jackie Yi-Ru Ying (1966- ) 🇹🇼🇺🇸 #womeninSTEM Executive Director of the Institute of Bioengineering & Nanotechnology (IBN) in Singapore & Adjunct Professor of Chemical Engineering at MIT. Her research focuses on nanostructured materials for applications in biomaterials. www.kff.com/king-faisal-...

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7️⃣6️⃣ Louise Eisenhardt (1891-1967) 🇺🇸 #womeninSTEM Neuropathologist considered to be one of the leading experts on brain tumour diagnosis. She worked with H. Cushing to set up a tumour registery at Yale University School of Medicine containing more than 2k samples neurosurgerywins.org/louise-eisen...

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7️⃣5️⃣ Jewel Plummer Cobb (1924-2017) 🇺🇸 #womeninSTEM American biologist whose crucial research led to the discovery of the effectiveness of the drug methotrexate in treating childhood leukaemia. She served as the 1st female president of California State University, Fullerton www.jax.org/news-and-ins...

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7️⃣4️⃣ Shafi Goldwasser (1958- ) 🇮🇱🇺🇸 #womeninSTEM Computer scientist and Professor at MIT. She is recognised for her pioneering contributions in the field of cryptography and computational number theory - 3rd woman to receive the Turing Award in 2012. www.loreal.com/en/articles/...

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7️⃣3️⃣ Laura Eme @lauraeme.bsky.social (1984- ) 🇫🇷 #womeninSTEM Evolutionary biologist that studies the genomic diversity of micro-organisms in order to reconstruct the history of life. She helped to identify a new group of organisms, the Asgard archaea. emelaura.com

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7️⃣2️⃣ María Blasco Marhuenda (1965- ) 🇪🇸 #womeninSTEM Spanish molecular biologist and currently the Director of the Spanish National Cancer Research Center (CNIO). She is a specialist in the study of telomeres - the ends of chromosomes - and telomerase. www.worldwomanfoundation.com/news/could-a...

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7️⃣1️⃣ Jean Marian Purdy (1945-1985) 🇬🇧 #womeninSTEM Pioneer of fertility treatment. On 25/07/1978, the world learned of the birth of the 1st IVF baby: Louise Brown. Jean Purdy was part of the team that contributed to this success, but her name has been forgotten. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

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7️⃣0️⃣ Suzanne Eaton (1959-2019) 🇺🇸 #womeninSTEM World-renowned developmental biologist, pioneer in quantitative approaches to tissue morphogenesis in Drosophila. Tragically murdered in 2019. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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6️⃣9️⃣ Olga Ladyzhenskaya (1922-2004) 🇷🇺 #womeninSTEM Russian mathematician who worked on partial differential equations, fluid dynamics and the finite difference method for the Navier-Stokes equations. massivesci.com/articles/olg...

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6️⃣8️⃣ Nicole Le Douarin (1930- ) 🇫🇷 #womeninSTEM Developmental biologist, she made a major contribution to our understanding of the formation of the neural crest by creating chick-quail chimeras. The 1st woman who became perpetual secretary of the Académie des sciences. embryo.asu.edu/pages/nicole...

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6️⃣7️⃣ Rose Dieng Kuntz (1956-2008) 🇸🇳 #womeninSTEM Senegalese scientist specialising in artificial intelligence, the first African woman to enter the Ecole Polytechnique in 1976. She worked at INRIA on knowledge sharing on the web. www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto...

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6️⃣6️⃣ Dorothy June Sutor (1929-1990) 🇳🇿 #womeninSTEM New Zealand crystallographer. She was the first to establish the existence of C - H ⋯ O hydrogen bonds in crystals in 1962. Her work was wrongly criticised by Jerry Donohue. www.chemistryworld.com/features/the...

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6️⃣5️⃣ Marita Cheng (1989- ) 🇦🇺 #womeninSTEM Young entrepreneur expert in robotics. Founder of Aubot, a robotics start-up, and Robogals, an organisation that aims to inspire young women to study engineering. asiasociety.org/asia-game-ch...

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6️⃣4️⃣ Marguerite Perey (1909 -1975) 🇫🇷 #womeninSTEM Chemist and physicist who worked with Marie Curie. She is best known for isolating francium in 1939. She was the first woman to be elected a correspondent of the French Académie des Sciences in 1962. www.lindahall.org/about/news/s...

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6️⃣3️⃣ Margaret S. Collins (1922-1996) 🇺🇸 #womeninSTEM The first African-American woman entomologist in the US and a leading civil rights activist. Known as the world's leading authority on termite diversity in the Caribbean islands and French Guiana. bioone.org/journals/flo...

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6️⃣2️⃣ Elisabeth Karamichailova (1897-1968) 🇧🇬 #womeninSTEM She was one of the women who pioneered nuclear physics at the beginning of the 20th century and set up the first practical courses in particle physics in Bulgaria. womeninscience.swu.bg?p=1558

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6️⃣1️⃣ Elizabeth Brown (1830-1899) 🇬🇧 #womeninSTEM British astronomer specialising in solar observation, particularly sunspots and eclipses. She played a key role in the creation of the British Astronomical Association in 1890. www.schoolsobservatory.org/learn/histor...

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6️⃣0️⃣ Marie Skłodowska-Curie (1867-1934) 🇵🇱🇫🇷 #womeninSTEM The most famous scientist in the world. 1st woman professor at Sorbonne, only woman to win the Nobel in 2 different fields. During WWI, she invented a mobile X-ray unit that could travel to the battlefront. www.nobelprize.org/womenwhochan...

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5️⃣9️⃣ Eugenie Clark (1922-2015) 🇺🇸 #womeninSTEM a.k.a "The Shark Lady". Marine biologist, pioneer in marine conservation and the study of shark behaviour. Some recently discovered species have been named in her honour, such as Squalus clarkae. www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/ar...

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5️⃣8️⃣ Karolin Luger (1963- ) 🇦🇹🇺🇸 #womeninSTEM @nucleosomepolice.bsky.social Austrian biochemist & structural biologist. CU Boulder distinguished Professor & avid hiker. Internationally renowned for her work on chromatin and the resolution in 1997 of the 3D structure of the nucleosome. lugerlab.org

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5️⃣7️⃣ Germaine Benoit (1901-1983) 🇫🇷 #womeninSTEM French chemical engineer. She synthesised several drugs including some for malaria & tuberculosis. She was 1 of the few women of her time to head a laboratory, the Therapeutic Chemistry Laboratory at the Pasteur Institute en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germain...

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5️⃣6️⃣ Rajaâ Cherkaoui El Moursli (1954- ) 🇲🇦 #womeninSTEM Moroccan scientist, specialist in nuclear physics. She is one of the precursors for Morocco's participation in the ATLAS experiment at CERN. In 2015, she received L’Oréal-UNESCO award. www.lesrencontreseconomiques.fr/2015/interve...

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5️⃣5️⃣ Stephanie Louise Kwolek (1923-2014) 🇺🇸 #womeninSTEM American chemist who invented poly-paraphenylene terephthalamide, better known as Kevlar. She was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1995, only the fourth woman member of 113 at the time. www.sciencehistory.org/education/sc...

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5️⃣4️⃣ Elisabeth Bik (1966- ) 🇳🇱 #womeninSTEM @elisabethbik.bsky.social Microbiologist, she worked on cholera epidemics in India & Bangladesh. Internationally recognised for her work in detecting image manipulation. 2021 Maddox Prize & 2024 Einstein Foundation award. www.statnews.com/2024/02/28/e...

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5️⃣3️⃣ Tania Louis (1989- ) 🇫🇷 #womeninSTEM @tanialouis.fr Trained as a virologist, she worked on SAMHD1, a protein that blocks HIV infection. As a multi-faceted scientific communicator, she is a key figure in France when it comes to popularise science and develop educational content. tanialouis.fr

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5️⃣2️⃣ Anne-Marie Lagrange (1962- ) 🇫🇷 #womeninSTEM Astrophysicit, specialist in exoplanets, she led the development of instruments on the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile and made the Beta Pictoris exoplanet a benchmark. video.ku.dk/video/104125...

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5️⃣1️⃣ Mildred Catherine Rebstock (1919-2011) 🇺🇸 #womeninSTEM American chemist who, in 1949, worked with her team to synthesise the first antibiotic (chloromycetin or chloramphenicol) prescribed at the time to treat typhoid fever. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

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5️⃣0️⃣ Emma Johnston (1973- ) 🇦🇺 @dremmaljohnston.bsky.social #womeninSTEM Professor of marine biology, director of research at UNSW and soon Vice-Chancellor of Melbourne Uni. She works tirelessly to save marine biodiversity including the Great Barrier Reef. www.timeshighereducation.com/hub/universi...

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4️⃣9️⃣ Hertha Ayrton (1854-1923) 🇬🇧 #womeninSTEM Mathematician, inventor & engineer. She is renowned for her work on the electric arc. Her application to the Royal Society was rejected in 1902 (women were not eligible until 1945). From 1883 until 1923, she registered 26 patents. jwa.org/encyclopedia...

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4️⃣8️⃣ Nicole-Reine Lepaute (1723-1788) 🇫🇷 #womeninSTEM French astronomer and mathematician. She predicted the return of Halley's Comet, calculated the timing of a solar eclipse and constructed a group of catalogs for the stars. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicole-...

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4️⃣7️⃣ Ellen Gleditsch (1879-1968) 🇳🇴 #womeninSTEM The second Norwegian woman to become a University professor, she headed the chair of inorganic chemistry in Oslo. She worked with Marie Skłodowska-Curie and determined the half life of natural radium. www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

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4️⃣6️⃣ Audrey Dussutour (1977- ) 🇫🇷 @docteur-drey.bsky.social #womeninSTEM Ethologist, specialist in ants and unicellular organisms such as Physarum polycephalum, the famous blob, known worldwide thanks to Audrey's remarkable work in popularising the subject. www.cell.com/current-biol...

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4️⃣5️⃣ Edith Clarke (1883-1959) 🇺🇸 #womeninSTEM 1st woman to obtain a degree in electrical engineering from MIT & 1st professor of electrical engineering at the University of Austin. An authority on the manipulation of hyperbolic functions & equivalent circuits. magazine.engr.utexas.edu/2023/edith-c...

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4️⃣4️⃣ Ángela Ruiz Robles (1895-1975) 🇪🇸 #womeninSTEM As a teacher, she was looking for a practical way of transporting a maximum of knowledge with a minimum of effort. In 1949, she patented a mechanical encyclopaedia, the forerunner of the digital book. fascinatingspain.com/spanish-cult...

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