from the mathematician Karen Uhlenbeck.
We‘re humans, we‘re imperfect and that makes us unique 💜

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In addition to insect metamorphosis, Maria Sibylla Merian was the first to document leafcutter ants. DYK about her work?


(And yes, she made some errors, but not more than any of her male counterparts)

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Dr. Anna Wessels Williams (1863-1954), M.D., a pioneer in infectious disease and public health advocate. She developed an effective treatment for diphtheria and a rapid diagnostic for rabies.

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I had so much fun making the first one and I promised there’d be more, so here’s a sketch of the wonderful . Brilliant geophysicist, amazing teacher, and all-round lovely person

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“We have uncovered a new American scientist and artist..." Read about Anne Wollstonecraft's botanical masterpiece via https://t.co/xl7QF11h0U, and see it here https://t.co/A2iwNFk4Pk via .

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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

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Happy Wednesday Earth got its first pics of a Some say it looks like a bagel, other think it looks like an eye. What do you think the looks like? 👩🏻‍🔬📸🌌#EHTBlackhole

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We're still in 2nd place! WE NEED YOUR HELP (TELL YOUR FRIENDS + RT)! Vote for us for a for the VR experience in featuring Dr. Goodall in Gombe, Marie Curie & Grace Hopper! https://t.co/H7b7Fa9Gsp

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In April 1950, German-born physicist Maria Goeppert Mayer published her shell model of the atomic nucleus, for which she would become the second woman to win a Nobel Prize in Physics - and which she did without a permanent scientific job. https://t.co/FRKjXfn53b

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Day 19 features Patricia Bath, ophthalmologist and surgeon, and first lady to lead a grad program in and an inventor!

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Happy Birthday Emmy Noether 🔢

Emmy Noether was a German mathematician whose work helped contribute to abstract algebra and theoretical physics

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Day12 Mamie Phipps Clark, psychologist who studied development of self-consciousness in black children, very influential in the Brown v Board of Ed case.

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