⚙️ Ada Lovelace was an English mathematician who has been called the first computer programmer for writing an algorithm for a computing machine in the 1800s. Ada’s contributions to computer…
Category: Women’s History Month
#MedMonday with Dr. Flossie Wong-Staal
🏥🔬 Dr. Flossie Wong-Staal is a Chinese-American virologist and molecular biologist who was the first scientist to clone HIV and determine the functions of its gene, which helped prove that…
#PhysicsFriday with Rajaâ Cherkaoui El Moursli
🔬 Rajaâ is a Moroccan Professor of nuclear physics. Inspired by Neil Armstrong’s achievements, Rajaâ had to convince her father to let her leave conservative Morocco after she earned her…
#TBT with Emmy Noether (1882-1935)
🔬 Emmy Noether was a mathematician who devised a mathematical principle, Noether’s theorem, that became a foundation for quantum physics. Emmy’s calculations were used by Albert Einstein as he formulated…
#TechTuesday with Hedy Lamarr
🔬 Hedy Lamarr was an Austrian-American inventor and actress. Hedy pioneered the technology that formed the basis for WiFi, GPS, and Bluetooth communication systems. Hedy was born in Vienna into…
#MedMonday with Susan La Flesche Picotte
🏥🔬 Susan La Flesche Picotte was the first Native American to become a doctor in the United States. Susan was born and grew up on an Indian reservation, which were…
#SpaceSunday with Cecilia Payne
🔬✨ Cecilia Payne was the first person to earn a doctorate in astronomy from Harvard University and later became the first woman to serve as the Chair of the Department…
#SustainabilitySaturday with Rachel Carson
🌱 Rachel Carson was an American marine biologist, conservationist, and author who wrote Silent Spring and other works on environmental pollution that advanced the global environmental movement. 🌱 Rachel always…
#TBT with Mary Golda Ross
🔬🚀 “I was brought up in the Cherokee tradition of equal education for boys and girls.” 🔬🚀 Mary Golda Ross was the first Native-American engineer, with her work as an…
#WCW with Dr. Ciara Sivels
🔬 Dr. Ciara Sivels made history, becoming the first black woman to earn a Ph.D in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Michigan in 2018. At the time, University of…
#TechTuesday with Rear Admiral Grace Hopper
Rear Admiral Grace Hopper is the U.S. Navy’s oldest active-duty officer, who developed the first compiler for a computer programming language, along with UNIVAC I and COBOL. Grace was an…
#MedMonday with Dr. Jane C. Wright
👩🏾⚕️ Dr. Jane C. Wright was a pioneering cancer researcher and surgeon remembered for her contributions to chemotherapy. Jane created a technique that uses human tissue culture rather than lab…