🔁 RT @jesswade: HUGE DAY! Prof Sandrine Heutz – Superstar of Spin, Queen of Quantum and Chair in Functional Molecular Materials – is now Head of the Department of Materials @imperialcollege. Sandrine is an awesome scientist, an extraordinary educator and an incredible mentor. #WomenInSTEM😃https://t.co/YlOJdOKsBw
#OnThisDay 1857: Pioneering neurophysiologist and champion for women scientists Ida Henrietta Hyde was born. She is celebrated for inventing the microelectrode #WomenInSTEMhttps://t.co/Mc42PuOHIf
#OnThisDay 1918: Mathematician Katherine Johnson was born. One of NASA's 'human computers', her calculations of orbital mechanics were critical to the success of the first and subsequent @NASA manned space flights #WomenInSTEM#BlackInSTEMhttps://t.co/bKJa35bPkI
#OnThisDay 1864: Doctor Elsie Inglis was born. She was one of Scotland’s first women doctors and the founder of the Scottish Women’s Hospitals.
She was also active in the suffrage movement, and was secretary of the Edinburgh National Society for Women’s Suffrage. #WomenInSTEMhttps://t.co/HAd8HKbt0V
As a Laboratory Technician Apprentice in our @ImperialBioeng, Adriana Lobosco can be found maintaining equipment and carrying out inductions for use of our lab 🧪
Adriana has always admired #WomenInSTEM and is proud to now be one ✊
#OnThisDay 1923: Stephanie Kwolek was born, she is best known for her work in polymer chemistry and became the fourth woman to be added to the National Inventors Hall of Fame. Stephanie died aged 90 in 2014. #WomenInSTEMhttps://t.co/pc1aeVg9L2
#OnThisDay 1947: French virologist Françoise Barré-Sinoussi was born. In 2008, she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for her work in the identification of HIV #WomenInSTEMhttps://t.co/KTEqJEqvub
#OnThisDay 1956: Chemical engineer Frances Arnold was born. In 2018, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for pioneering the use of directed evolution to engineer enzymes #WomenInSTEMhttps://t.co/Nlt0pUwlbk
#OnThisDay 1929: Astronomer Vera Rubin was born. She pioneered work on galaxy rotation rates. Vera was described as one of the astronomers who paved the way for other women in the field. She died in 2016 aged 88. #WomenInSTEM🌌https://t.co/m67UV0f2DF
#OnThisDay 1921: Medical physicist Rosalyn Yalow was born. Together with her colleagues she developed the radioimmunoassay technique and was a co-winner of the 1977 Medicine Nobel Prize. #WomenInSTEMhttps://t.co/96ezEnfIH9