The Women In Science Archive
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Celebrating Eleven Years of bringing stories of scientific women to light! Our newest book, A History of Women in Psychology and Neuroscience, is now available! www.wisarchive.com
Ichthyologist Fang Fang Kullander would have been 63 years old today. She travelled the globe for her taxonomical studies of freshwater fish and her work with Fishbase, but passed away at the age of 47 in 2010 from gall duct cancer.
#WomenInSTEM #Ichthyology #FishSky #BioSky 🧪🐟
#WomenInSTEM #Ichthyology #FishSky #BioSky 🧪🐟
November 14, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Ichthyologist Fang Fang Kullander would have been 63 years old today. She travelled the globe for her taxonomical studies of freshwater fish and her work with Fishbase, but passed away at the age of 47 in 2010 from gall duct cancer.
#WomenInSTEM #Ichthyology #FishSky #BioSky 🧪🐟
#WomenInSTEM #Ichthyology #FishSky #BioSky 🧪🐟
Dorothea Erxleben, the first European woman to earn a modern Medical Degree, was born 310 years ago today. The German medical establishment quickly closed ranks after, and it would be over a century until the next woman was given one.
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#WomenInSTEM #MedSky 🧪⚕️
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#WomenInSTEM #MedSky 🧪⚕️
The Last of the Women Physicians: Dorothea Leporin Erxleben.
Prior to the eighteenth century, the answer to the question, ‘Who was allowed to practise medicine?’ was relatively simple: just about anybody. While those who attended university were given a theory-...
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November 13, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Dorothea Erxleben, the first European woman to earn a modern Medical Degree, was born 310 years ago today. The German medical establishment quickly closed ranks after, and it would be over a century until the next woman was given one.
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#WomenInSTEM #MedSky 🧪⚕️
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#WomenInSTEM #MedSky 🧪⚕️
Micropalaeontologist Irene Crespin was born 129 years ago today. The author of some ninety papers, she nonetheless received half the pay of her male colleagues. She was a specialist in the foraminifera of the Indo-Pacific region, working until her mandatory retirement in 1961
#WomenInSTEM #PaleoSky
#WomenInSTEM #PaleoSky
November 12, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Micropalaeontologist Irene Crespin was born 129 years ago today. The author of some ninety papers, she nonetheless received half the pay of her male colleagues. She was a specialist in the foraminifera of the Indo-Pacific region, working until her mandatory retirement in 1961
#WomenInSTEM #PaleoSky
#WomenInSTEM #PaleoSky
Neuroscientist Marian Cleeves Diamond was born 99 years ago today - her studies of how enriched environments can stimulate changes in brain structure of the 1960s gifted us a new, dynamic picture of the brain and its growth.
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#WomenInSTEM #NeuroSky 🧪🧠
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#WomenInSTEM #NeuroSky 🧪🧠
Beyond Nature Vs. Nurture: Marian Cleeves Diamond and Leda Cosmides
In 1964, two publications announced the beginning of two roads out of the centuries-long quagmire represented by the Nature Versus Nurture debate among philosophers, psychologists, and social theorist...
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November 11, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Neuroscientist Marian Cleeves Diamond was born 99 years ago today - her studies of how enriched environments can stimulate changes in brain structure of the 1960s gifted us a new, dynamic picture of the brain and its growth.
tinyurl.com/ycxjrh9t
#WomenInSTEM #NeuroSky 🧪🧠
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#WomenInSTEM #NeuroSky 🧪🧠
New post! Today we celebrate the long life and work of seismologist Inge Lehmann, whose mathematical modeling of the 1929 Murchison earthquake led to her discovery of Earth's solid inner core. Here is her story!
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#WomenInSTEM #EarthScience #Seismology 🧪
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#WomenInSTEM #EarthScience #Seismology 🧪
Core Principles: The Life and Work of Seismologist Inge Lehmann.
At 10:17 in the morning on June 17, 1929, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake shook New Zealand’s Murchison region, causing landslides that claimed seventeen lives, and sending seismic P-waves throughout the E...
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November 7, 2025 at 2:52 PM
New post! Today we celebrate the long life and work of seismologist Inge Lehmann, whose mathematical modeling of the 1929 Murchison earthquake led to her discovery of Earth's solid inner core. Here is her story!
tinyurl.com/yfm6mua2
#WomenInSTEM #EarthScience #Seismology 🧪
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#WomenInSTEM #EarthScience #Seismology 🧪
Psychologist Helen Thompson Woolley was born 151 years ago today. She was a pioneer in the study of intelligence and gender, whose work challenged the gender assumptions of the 19th century while setting a new standard for comparative psych testing.
#WomenInSTEM #PsychSky 🧠
#WomenInSTEM #PsychSky 🧠
November 7, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Psychologist Helen Thompson Woolley was born 151 years ago today. She was a pioneer in the study of intelligence and gender, whose work challenged the gender assumptions of the 19th century while setting a new standard for comparative psych testing.
#WomenInSTEM #PsychSky 🧠
#WomenInSTEM #PsychSky 🧠
Wishing a happy 87th birthday to chemist Gloria Long Anderson, who for decades has employed Fluorine-19 NMR as a means of probing a litany of reactions of interest to her. For over half a century, she has been a tentpole figure at Morris Brown College.
#WomenInSTEM #BlackWomenInSTEM #ChemSky 🧪⚛️
#WomenInSTEM #BlackWomenInSTEM #ChemSky 🧪⚛️
November 5, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Wishing a happy 87th birthday to chemist Gloria Long Anderson, who for decades has employed Fluorine-19 NMR as a means of probing a litany of reactions of interest to her. For over half a century, she has been a tentpole figure at Morris Brown College.
#WomenInSTEM #BlackWomenInSTEM #ChemSky 🧪⚛️
#WomenInSTEM #BlackWomenInSTEM #ChemSky 🧪⚛️
Janaki Ammal was born 128 years ago today! A legend of botanical genetics, she studied how polyploidy plays into the resilience of agricultural crops, compiled a sprawling chromosomal atlas of plants, and fought for the preservation of India's natural legacy.
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#WomenInSTEM
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#WomenInSTEM
Janaki Ammal And the Fight for India’s Botanical Future.
Caste. Race. Gender. These were the three categories that, in early twentieth century Madras, combined to determine the boundaries of an individual’s potential. Being of an undesirable categorizat...
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November 4, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Janaki Ammal was born 128 years ago today! A legend of botanical genetics, she studied how polyploidy plays into the resilience of agricultural crops, compiled a sprawling chromosomal atlas of plants, and fought for the preservation of India's natural legacy.
tinyurl.com/2j9hxmjb
#WomenInSTEM
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#WomenInSTEM
Wishing a happy 42nd birthday to Lithuanian neuroscientist Urtė Neniškytė, who has spent her career identifying interactions between the immune and nervous system, and investigating the molecular pathways behind neural pruning!
#WomenInSTEM #NeuroSky 🧠🧪
#WomenInSTEM #NeuroSky 🧠🧪
November 2, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Wishing a happy 42nd birthday to Lithuanian neuroscientist Urtė Neniškytė, who has spent her career identifying interactions between the immune and nervous system, and investigating the molecular pathways behind neural pruning!
#WomenInSTEM #NeuroSky 🧠🧪
#WomenInSTEM #NeuroSky 🧠🧪
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Edith Clarke, 1st woman MS in electrical engineering @ MIT, 1st professional female electrical engineer in US. Worked in #Turkey. 1st woman professor of electrical engineering @ Uni of Texas #Austin. Specialised in electrical power system analysis. d. 29 Oct 1959 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_C...
October 29, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Edith Clarke, 1st woman MS in electrical engineering @ MIT, 1st professional female electrical engineer in US. Worked in #Turkey. 1st woman professor of electrical engineering @ Uni of Texas #Austin. Specialised in electrical power system analysis. d. 29 Oct 1959 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_C...
Physicist Laura Bassi was born 314 years ago today. Her thesis defense in 1732 was a major social event which led to her getting hired by the University of Bologna as a paid lecturer. Here is her story!
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#WomenInSTEM #Physics 🧪
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#WomenInSTEM #Physics 🧪
Water, Fire, and Lightning: The Life of Laura Bassi, the First Woman Professor of Science.
It's April of 1732, and the hot ticket in Bologna is not an opera, a play, or a beheading, but rather that most mundane of things: a lengthy thesis defense, in Latin. Routine stuff, except this time ...
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October 29, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Physicist Laura Bassi was born 314 years ago today. Her thesis defense in 1732 was a major social event which led to her getting hired by the University of Bologna as a paid lecturer. Here is her story!
tinyurl.com/4jyxuttr
#WomenInSTEM #Physics 🧪
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#WomenInSTEM #Physics 🧪
Marjory Warren, the founder of modern geriatric medicine, was born 128 years ago today. In the early 1940s she wrote a series of papers calling for the creation of the field, and founded the Medical Society for the Care of the Elderly in 1947, leading to NHS adoption in the 50s
#WomenInSTEM #MedSky
#WomenInSTEM #MedSky
October 28, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Marjory Warren, the founder of modern geriatric medicine, was born 128 years ago today. In the early 1940s she wrote a series of papers calling for the creation of the field, and founded the Medical Society for the Care of the Elderly in 1947, leading to NHS adoption in the 50s
#WomenInSTEM #MedSky
#WomenInSTEM #MedSky
American mathematician Olive Clio Hazlett was born 135 years ago today. A keen algebraist specializing in nilpotent algebras and the arithmetic of algebra, she struggled her whole life with mental health issues, ultimately residing in a state mental hospital for 9 years.
#WomenInSTEM #MathSky 🧮
#WomenInSTEM #MathSky 🧮
October 27, 2025 at 2:13 PM
American mathematician Olive Clio Hazlett was born 135 years ago today. A keen algebraist specializing in nilpotent algebras and the arithmetic of algebra, she struggled her whole life with mental health issues, ultimately residing in a state mental hospital for 9 years.
#WomenInSTEM #MathSky 🧮
#WomenInSTEM #MathSky 🧮
Wishing a happy 90th birthday to Gloria Conyers Hewitt, the group theorist who in 1962 became the fourth Black woman to earn a PhD in mathematics, and went on to become, in 1995, the 1st Black woman to chair a US mathematical department.
#WomenInSTEM #MathSky #BlackWomenInSTEM 🧮
#WomenInSTEM #MathSky #BlackWomenInSTEM 🧮
October 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Wishing a happy 90th birthday to Gloria Conyers Hewitt, the group theorist who in 1962 became the fourth Black woman to earn a PhD in mathematics, and went on to become, in 1995, the 1st Black woman to chair a US mathematical department.
#WomenInSTEM #MathSky #BlackWomenInSTEM 🧮
#WomenInSTEM #MathSky #BlackWomenInSTEM 🧮
Comparative Neuroanatomy legend Elizabeth Crosby was born 137 years ago today. She was a major contributor to the 1936 classic text The Comparative Anatomy of the Nervous System of Vertebrates and recipient of the National Medal of Science.
#WomenInSTEM #NeuroSky #MedSky 🧠
#WomenInSTEM #NeuroSky #MedSky 🧠
October 25, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Comparative Neuroanatomy legend Elizabeth Crosby was born 137 years ago today. She was a major contributor to the 1936 classic text The Comparative Anatomy of the Nervous System of Vertebrates and recipient of the National Medal of Science.
#WomenInSTEM #NeuroSky #MedSky 🧠
#WomenInSTEM #NeuroSky #MedSky 🧠
Captain Lakshmi Sahgal was born 111 years ago today. As a doctor, she was a key figure behind organizing medical aid to refugees during the Bangladesh Crisis, and as a politician she was a leading light of the Free India Movement, serving in the INA's women's brigade.
#WomenInSTEM #MedSky ⚕️
#WomenInSTEM #MedSky ⚕️
October 24, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Captain Lakshmi Sahgal was born 111 years ago today. As a doctor, she was a key figure behind organizing medical aid to refugees during the Bangladesh Crisis, and as a politician she was a leading light of the Free India Movement, serving in the INA's women's brigade.
#WomenInSTEM #MedSky ⚕️
#WomenInSTEM #MedSky ⚕️
June Bacon-Bercey, the first Black woman to earn a PhD in meteorology, was born 97 years ago today. She worked for the AEC studying nuclear fallout, and transitioned to a career in education and outreach, working for the @noaa.gov and the National Weather Service.
#WomenInSTEM #Meteorology 🌧️
#WomenInSTEM #Meteorology 🌧️
October 23, 2025 at 1:58 PM
June Bacon-Bercey, the first Black woman to earn a PhD in meteorology, was born 97 years ago today. She worked for the AEC studying nuclear fallout, and transitioned to a career in education and outreach, working for the @noaa.gov and the National Weather Service.
#WomenInSTEM #Meteorology 🌧️
#WomenInSTEM #Meteorology 🌧️
Mathematician Marguerite Lehr was born 127 years ago today. Working in algebraic geometry, Lehr was a tentpole presence at Bryn Mawr from 1925 to her retirement in 1967 who also pushed the boundaries of #scicomm with a tv math program she hosted in the 1950s.
#WomenInSTEM #MathSky 🧮
#WomenInSTEM #MathSky 🧮
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Mathematician Marguerite Lehr was born 127 years ago today. Working in algebraic geometry, Lehr was a tentpole presence at Bryn Mawr from 1925 to her retirement in 1967 who also pushed the boundaries of #scicomm with a tv math program she hosted in the 1950s.
#WomenInSTEM #MathSky 🧮
#WomenInSTEM #MathSky 🧮
Wishing a happy 83rd birthday to Nobel laureate Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, whose 1991 Prize was awarded for her groundbreaking research into the genetic mechanisms behind the development of embryos. Here is her story!
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Making the Gradient: Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard and the Mysteries of Embryo Development
How is it that, starting from a single fertilized egg, employing only mechanical processes, you can form a kangaroo, a housefly, or a human? It is one of the most complicated, perplexing questions li...
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October 20, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Wishing a happy 83rd birthday to Nobel laureate Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, whose 1991 Prize was awarded for her groundbreaking research into the genetic mechanisms behind the development of embryos. Here is her story!
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New post! Today we focus on the life and career of Hamida Saiduzzafar (1921-1988), India's first woman ophthalmologist, and a driving force behind glaucoma research in her country. Here is her story!
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#WomenInSTEM #MedSky #Ophthalmology #PublicHealth ⚕️🧪
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#WomenInSTEM #MedSky #Ophthalmology #PublicHealth ⚕️🧪
Maintaining Focus: The Life and Career of Hamida Saiduzzafar, India’s First Woman Ophthalmologist
In 1947, the partition of India carved out a theoretically Muslim-majority territory out of the Indian state, sparking a bloody era of desperate migration as members of religious minorities in the new...
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October 19, 2025 at 3:54 PM
New post! Today we focus on the life and career of Hamida Saiduzzafar (1921-1988), India's first woman ophthalmologist, and a driving force behind glaucoma research in her country. Here is her story!
tinyurl.com/2s5yafv9
#WomenInSTEM #MedSky #Ophthalmology #PublicHealth ⚕️🧪
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#WomenInSTEM #MedSky #Ophthalmology #PublicHealth ⚕️🧪
Theoretical physicist Fumiko Yonezawa was born 87 years ago today. She was a pioneer in the use of computers to model matter in amorphous states, and the 1st woman president of the Physical Society of Japan. She passed away in 2019.
#WomenInSTEM #Physics 🧪
#WomenInSTEM #Physics 🧪
October 19, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Theoretical physicist Fumiko Yonezawa was born 87 years ago today. She was a pioneer in the use of computers to model matter in amorphous states, and the 1st woman president of the Physical Society of Japan. She passed away in 2019.
#WomenInSTEM #Physics 🧪
#WomenInSTEM #Physics 🧪
Wishing a happy 69th birthday to astronaut, doctor, and businesswoman Mae Jemison, whose mission on STS-47 in 1992 made her the first Black woman in space, and who has since founded educational and innovation initiatives to balance out world access to technology.
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#WomenInSTEM
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#WomenInSTEM
The Concerns of the Earth, and Above: Mae Jemison’s Life in Medicine and Space Travel.
There is a bit of political wisdom we have lived with for half a century now, which says that spending money on space travel, while social problems still exist upon the Earth, is wasteful at best and ...
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October 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Wishing a happy 69th birthday to astronaut, doctor, and businesswoman Mae Jemison, whose mission on STS-47 in 1992 made her the first Black woman in space, and who has since founded educational and innovation initiatives to balance out world access to technology.
tinyurl.com/mw73da2b
#WomenInSTEM
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#WomenInSTEM
Obstetrician Dossibai Dadabhoy was born 144 years ago today. She was the first Indian woman member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (1910) and upon her return to India devoted her energies to lowering infant mortality through the founding of maternal welfare centers.
#WomenInSTEM #MedSky
#WomenInSTEM #MedSky
October 16, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Obstetrician Dossibai Dadabhoy was born 144 years ago today. She was the first Indian woman member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (1910) and upon her return to India devoted her energies to lowering infant mortality through the founding of maternal welfare centers.
#WomenInSTEM #MedSky
#WomenInSTEM #MedSky
Neuroscience legend Augusta Déjerine-Klumpke was born 166 years ago today. She discovered Klumpke's Palsy in 1885, and was co-author of the definitive 1200 page Sémiologie du Système Nerveux and the 2-volume Anatomie des Centres Nerveux.
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#WomenInSTEM #Neuroscience #NeuroSky 🧠🧪
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#WomenInSTEM #Neuroscience #NeuroSky 🧠🧪
The Woman of a Thousand Brains: Augusta Déjerine-Klumpke, Pioneer Neuroscientist.
The brain is ready. It luxuriated in a solution of potassium bicarbonate for a year, and then in a thick mixture of nitrocellulose for another month and a half, and now it is finally ripe for the slic...
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October 15, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Neuroscience legend Augusta Déjerine-Klumpke was born 166 years ago today. She discovered Klumpke's Palsy in 1885, and was co-author of the definitive 1200 page Sémiologie du Système Nerveux and the 2-volume Anatomie des Centres Nerveux.
tinyurl.com/bdfb4tbh
#WomenInSTEM #Neuroscience #NeuroSky 🧠🧪
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#WomenInSTEM #Neuroscience #NeuroSky 🧠🧪
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An image for #ALD25. This is Evelyn Strutt, Lady Rayleigh (www.npg.org.uk/collections/...).
She's not often numbered among "women in science", but she had a crucial role in the work attributed to her husband, because he didn't know German and she did.
She's not often numbered among "women in science", but she had a crucial role in the work attributed to her husband, because he didn't know German and she did.
October 14, 2025 at 4:08 PM