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Historian Curator Wikimedian 🤓🏴🇪🇺 🗃️ Hic Sunt Dracones 🐑🍬 “Wiki Medium” ☠️ (you need to be dead before I write about you). History of #WomenInSTEM & other things that catch my interest. Every month is #WomensHistoryMonth here
Dorothéa Klumpke US astronomer. 1893 PhD on rings of Saturn @ Uni Paris. 1886 Director Bureau of Measurements @ Paris Observatory Carte du Ciel project. Worked w husband to photograph 52 Herschel areas of nebulosity. Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur b #OTD 9 Aug 1861 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothe...
Colette Kreder engineer, feminist. 1957 grad École Polytechnique Féminine, later returned transform it. Ran research on electronic components @ ministère de l'Air. 1964 @ Lignes télégraphiques & téléphoniques. Creator of Demain la Parité network & Femmes et sciences en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colette...
#OTD: computer scientist Frances Allen was born 4 August 1932, dying exactly 88 years later on 4 August 2020. Known for her work optimizing compilers, she worked at IBM for 45 years, becoming the first woman named an IBM Fellow. Read more about her at infinite-women.com/women/frances-allen
Frances Allen - Infinite Women
American computer scientist renowned for her pioneering work in optimizing compilers.
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8/4/1932 — b. Frances E. Allen, American computer scientist. A pioneer in optimizing compilers; language and #security code programmer, National Security Administration. The first female IBM fellow; a fellow of the Computer History Museum (2000) #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #SciSky #HistSci #NSA #IBM
Sibyl Rock US mass spectrometry & computing pioneer. 1940s key part of CEC's team as mass specs commercialised 4 researchers/scientists use. Developed maths techniques for analyzing results, an analog computer & early digital computer Datatron #WomenInSTEM b Aug 1909 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibyl_M...
Josephine Cochrane inventor of 1st commercially successful automatic dishwasher, designed in home shed. 1893 showed new machine @ World's Columbian Exposition in #Chicago won 🏆 business took off. 2013 #Romania issued stamp in her honour d. #OTD 3 Aug 1913 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephi...
Hilda Ericsson founded Ericsson telecom co w husband. Tested inventions, developed new products, managed finances, clients & deliveries. Women = 1/3 of workforce. Winding electromagnetic coils w satin-coated copper wire seen as women's work @ time. b. #OTD 3 Aug 1860 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilda_E...
Odile Croissant French biologist physicist electron microscopy specialist. Researcher @ Pasteur Institute. 1 of 1st scientists to dev techniques 4 insitu detection of viral nucleic acids. Key role in creating 1st physical map of human papillomavirus b #OTD 3 Aug 1923 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odile_C...
Far from me to suggest there might be an overlap in interests -- but if you're interested in Military history and Railways, then there's an ROC bunker for sale overlooking the Eurotunnel entrance in Folkstone. www.milesandbarr.co.uk/auction-for-...
Norah Balls UK #suffragette #magistrate #councillor. 1910 modelled WSPU's summer uniform & #votesforwomen sash. Arrested x3. Co-founder #Northumberland Girl Guides. Justice of Peace 1944, asked if other magistrates had been on both sides of dock. b. #OTD 3 Aug 1886 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norah_B...
Quaker ornithologist Graceanna Lewis was born 205 years ago today. Her early microscopic studies of plumage gave way to larger attempts to create new taxonomical systems based on factors like nesting plumage and egg structure. tinyurl.com/4psrv5wr #WomenInSTEM #WomensHistory #BirdSky 🐦
Summing the Natural Order: The Taxonomy and Ornithology of Graceanna Lewis, Quaker.
In the mid 19th century, American biological science was tentatively feeling its way forward along a half dozen different and contradictory directions as it gamely attempted to figure out just what it...
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Pearl Wallace, aka Captain Pearl Hogg. 1947 became #Australia's 1st qualified woman master marine. Worked as riverboat skipper on the rivers of the Murray-Darling Basin in SE Australia. Inspiration for book All the Rivers Run by Nancy Cato. b. #OTD 2 Aug 1911 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_W...
The Cambridge First All-Ladies Fire Brigade, a new musical about Hertha Ayrton and pioneering women in science, supported by the BSHS OEC project grant, @ the britishsciencefestival.org on 19 Sept in Southampton. bshs.org.uk/cambridge-fi... Free tickets: www.mayflower.org.uk/whats-on/bri...
Norah Balls UK #suffragette #magistrate #councillor. 1910 modelled WSPU's summer uniform & #votesforwomen sash. Arrested x3. Co-founder #Northumberland Girl Guides. Justice of Peace 1944, asked if other magistrates had been on both sides of dock. b. #OTD 3 Aug 1886 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norah_B...
Dr Marie LV Gayler #metallurgist - discoveries in aluminium alloys & dental amalgams revolutionised tooth fillings. Spent most of career @ National Physical Laboratory. 1 of 3 women ever made Honorary Member British Dental Assoc d. #OTD 2 Aug 1976 #WomenInSTEM en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_L...
Maria Artini Italian engineer 1918 1st woman electrical engineering uni graduate in Italy 2nd woman grad @ Polytechnic Uni of Milan. Worked @ Edison energy in Milan on design/construction of Italy's 1st v high-voltage power line in Brugherio-Parma. d. #OTD 2 Aug 1951 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_A...
Euphemia Culbert Cunningham OBE BEM #WWI munitions worker at HM Factory Gretna (aka Devils Porridge} 1st person from Edinburgh awarded Medal of Order of British Empire for bravery in rescuing injured workers during explosion in cordite factory. d. #OTD 2 Aug 1989 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphemi...
Margareta von Konow #Swedish journalist, editor, feminist. 1933 editor of "Herta" magazine. Highlighted total lack of women in government inquiry into future of radio, set up Women's Orgs Radio Committee to get women onto radio programmes & boards. d #OTD 2 Aug 1999 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margare...
Pearl Wallace, aka Captain Pearl Hogg. 1947 became #Australia's 1st qualified woman master marine. Worked as riverboat skipper on the rivers of the Murray-Darling Basin in SE Australia. Inspiration for book All the Rivers Run by Nancy Cato. b. #OTD 2 Aug 1911 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_W...
Engineer Karen Leadlay working on the analog computers in the space division of General Dynamics, 1964
#OTD 1 Aug 1911, Harriet Quimby became 1st woman licensed as a pilot in US. She wore plum coloured flying suits as her signature look. Went on to be 1st woman to fly across English Channel in 1912, feat overshadowed by sinking of Titanic the day before en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet...
Ira Rischowski 1919 1st woman #electricalengineering student @ TU Darmstadt #Germany. 1936 came to UK via #Prague to escape persecution, did domestic work until able to return to engineering. Joined @wes1919.bsky.social Interned @ #Rushen camp #WWII b #OTD 1 Aug 1899 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ira_Ris...
Gidsken Jakobsen, age 20 2nd Norwegian woman to earn pilot's license. 1 of 1st Norwegians in commercial aviation. 1932 set up her own airline: Nord-Norges Aero, 1st woman head of a Scandinavian airline. 1934 set up 2nd airline Bergens Aero. b. #OTD 1 Aug 1908 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gidsken...
Belkis Valdman #Turkish born #Jewish naturalised #Brazilian researcher, teacher academic chemical engineer, worked in instrumentation & process control in chemical engineering. Professor @ufrjoficial.bsky.social supported broading access 2 education d #OTD 1 Aug 2011 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belkis_...
Sophie Christensen 1 of Denmark's 1st women master carpenters & furniture designers. 1893 completed furniture maker apprenticeship, attended Chicago World Fair. 1895 opened own business in Copenhagen. Headed Industrial Design School 4 Women 1907-16 d #OTD 31 Jul 1955 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophy_A...
Dorothy Spicer UK aviatrix, 1st woman to gain advanced qualification in #aeronauticalengineering. Amy Johnson teased her @wes1919.bsky.social event "amidst much laughter...to admit or deny...that she held every licence that it was possible to hold" b #OTD 31 Jul 1908 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy...
Geneviève Guitel 1895–1982 French mathematician. Introduced terms échelle longue & échelle courte (long scale/short scale) to refer to 2 of main numbering systems used around world. 1955 won Prix Gegner for PhD. In retirement 2nd career as historian of mathematics en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneviè...
Marie Laeng-Stucki #Swiss entrepreneur. 1946 "Mama" founded Lenco vinyl turntables w' husband Fritz. 1.3k staff had pension scheme, sports, library, cashless salary payments, flexible work hours & accident prevention. She only got the vote in 1971 b #OTD 30 Jul 1905 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_L...
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Archives & Collections, Library of Birmingham@theironroom.bsky.social · 6d ago#BirminghamWomen This Birmingham Mail article from September 1949 celebrates the appointment of Miss B Barwell to the position of lecturer in the electrical engineering department of Birmingham Central Technical College. Ref: Birmingham Biography Vol. 41 #LibraryofBham
