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#OTD in1951, Rosalind Franklin gave a lecture at Kings College London showing her ground-breaking X-rays of DNA. James Watson, who was present, won a Nobel Prize in 1962 with Francis Crick for solving DNA's structure. Franklin had died in 1958, and could not share in the prize.
#otd in 1929 Constance Spry unveiled her first floral shop window display, shocking London by using hedgerow flowers. Considered a trailblazer, she set up her own Flower School and during WWII gave lectures encouraging people to grow their own food. https://t.co/2Pd41KvbmW
#OTD in 2010 the extraordinary Asma Jilani Jahangir, lawyer and activist, became the first woman president of Pakistan’s Supreme Court Bar Association. With her sister she set up the country's first free legal aid centre and its Human Rights Commission. https://t.co/xMp6QldCT5
In 1679 naturalist & illustrator Maria Merian published "The Wondrous Transformation of Caterpillars", the first work looking at animal-plant relationships, making her the first ecologist. She was also the first to record insect metamorphosis. #WomenInSTEM https://t.co/N1sbpNvPUU
#OTD in 1745, the first recorded women's cricket match took place—on Gosden Common, nr Guildford—“between eleven maids of Bramley and eleven maids of Hambledon, all dressed in white… The girls bowled, batted, ran and catched as well as most men could do.”
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In May 1945 Dorothy Hodgkin figured out the molecular structure of penicillin. In 1964 she won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for her work in X-ray crystallography. “I was captured for life by chemistry and by crystals.” She was also a socialist & activist. https://t.co/iELgCL30S4
On this day in 1943, German student Sophie Scholl, with her brother Hans, was executed by the Nazis for distributing anti-Nazi resistance leaflets. "...what does my death matter, if through us, thousands of people are awakened and stirred to action?” https://t.co/uRw6QZs2mo #otd
On this day in 1935, Danish-Norwegian explorer Caroline Mikkelsen becomes the first woman to set foot in Antarctica, on an island. Norwegian Ingrid Christensen is the first woman to set foot on the Antarctic mainland, a year later. https://t.co/ugg1hFcZn4 #otd #womenexplorers