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#ICYMI: Today's #GoogleDoodle honors Justine Siegemund, whose 1690 #obstetrics manual (The Court #Midwife) was the first German medical text written by a woman.
Further info via @AMJPublicHealth: https://t.co/zp3QxTk1Za
#histSTM #histmed #WomenInSTEM
#ICYMI: Today's #GoogleDoodle celebrates the 80th birthday of Mario Molina, the Mexican chemist who demonstrated that #CFC gases were damaging the #ozone layer.
Further details via @SciHistoryOrg: https://t.co/LFelfj3sNc
#histSTM #envhist #chemistry
#ClimateChange #OnThisDay
John Fothergill, an English physician & patron of several Quaker naturalists including Sydney Parkinson & William Bartram (whose painting of a Franklin tree is shown on the right), is @LindaHall_org's #ScientistOfTheDay.
https://t.co/uIm5dJJotL
#histSTM #NaturalHistory #Quakers
John Edward Gray, @BritishMuseum's Keeper of #Zoology who helped Charles #Darwin conduct research on #barnacles, is @LindaHall_Org's #ScientistOfTheDay.
(The image on the right is from Darwin's 1854 book on the subclass Cirripedia.)
https://t.co/QQ3UZQRsLZ
#histSTM
Edward Donovan, Anglo-Irish naturalist and illustrator, is @LindaHall_org’s #ScientistOfTheDay.
These #butterfly engravings are from his Epitome of the Natural History of the #Insects of China (1798).
https://t.co/Q4LBEwP1ti
#histSTM #sciart #entomology
Deborah Passmore, American botanical illustrator who became the head artist in @USDA's #Pomology division, is @LindaHall_org's #ScientistOfTheDay.
https://t.co/W4ueVACjXH
#histSTM #sciart #WomenInSTEM
#botany #fruit
Happy #WinterSolstice to my friends in the Northern Hemisphere!
(And, of course, Happy #SummerSolstice to those of you south of the equator!)
[Planisphere from Sigismond Visconti & A.H. Dufour's Tableaux du système planétaire, c. 1830]
https://t.co/nHhTBInuVm
#histSTM #sciart
This #Thanksgiving, be sure to send your holiday greetings by Radiogram!
(Poster encouraging U.S. servicemen in occupied #Japan to call home #OnThisDay in 1949. Further details via @hagleymuseum: https://t.co/vBBwBuvH99)
#histSTM #radio #RCA
#telecommunications #turkey
Edme-François Jomard, the French topographical engineer and cartographer who oversaw the publication of the Description de l’Égypte, is @LindaHall_org's #ScientistOfTheDay.
https://t.co/vkctUdsaZp
#histSTM #Egyptology #Archaeology