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In July 1939, American astronomer Annie Jump Cannon - who created the Harvard Classification Scheme, the first serious method for classifying stars, & classified 350,000 in her lifetime - discovered Harvard’s 10,000th variable star. https://t.co/XnHJPBbfi4 #WomenInSTEM
#otd in 1996, 37-year-old Irish journalist Veronica Guerin - known worldwide for her articles on criminal gangs and the drug trade - was murdered by drug lords. In 2000, she was named as one of the Int'l Press Institute's World Press Freedom Heroes. https://t.co/e6ECQI66vu
#OTD in 1931 haematologist Lucy Wills published her paper on pernicious anaemia in pregnant women in the British Medical Journal. She'd identified a B vitamin in Marmite (the "Wills Factor") that prevented and cured anaemia—later shown to be folic acid. https://t.co/jwwWBKlUbJ
After Agnes of Dunbar had defended Dunbar Castle in Scotland for 5 months against the English, on this day in 1338 the English lifted the siege. https://t.co/vXYmeyzmu0 (Ballad) #otd
#otd in 1913 English suffragette Emily Wilding Davison stepped out in front of the King's horse at the Derby horse race to draw attention to the Votes for Women cause. She died 4 days later of her injuries; 50,000 people lined her funeral route. https://t.co/CrIfyQpfRB
Properzia de Rossi (c. 1490-1530)—a sculptor in Bologna—was the only woman given her own chapter in the first edition of Giorgio Vasari's Lives (1550). The cherry stone on which she carved sixty saints' heads is displayed in the Uffizi gallery, Florence. https://t.co/xPlMv4IqyC
On Georgian Independence Day we celebrate Barbare Jorjadze, princess, chef, author, playwright & women's rights advocate. In 1874 she published "Georgian Cuisine and Tried Housekeeping Notes" which has recently sparked a renaissance in Georgian cuisine. https://t.co/rUO9f9R7FQ
In May 1895 Juliana Emma Linter was elected to the Malacological Society of London for the study of molluscs. Her collection of 15,000 shells—now at @RAMMuseum—is invaluable to taxonomic research & to wider biodiversity studies esp concerning conservation. https://t.co/2vM9Jk1qD0
On #MayDay remember Minna Cauer (2nd from right) who in May 1889 set up the Commercial Union of Female Salaried Employees in Germany, an early female union. In 1896 she presided at the International Congress of Women's Work and Women's Endeavours. #MayDay https://t.co/YdoqpLi1tU
Today we celebrate medieval Arab mathematician Sutayta al-Mahamali (d. 987 CE). Born in Baghdad, a widely-consulted scholar of science and jurisprudence, she solved problems of inheritance requiring knowledge of a brand new field: algebra. https://t.co/SOUK78YX0a #WomenInSTEM