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This day last year was Worldwide Day of Botanical Art! Here’s 3 favourites from our collections: Maria Calcott (c. 1825), Matilda Smith (1885) & Janet Hutton (c. 1810)

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2019-05-18

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

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2019-05-17

Born 1910: biochemist Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, pioneer of X-ray won the in in 1964 for her work in establishing the structure of vitamin B12 & In 1969, she solved the 3D shape of the molecule.

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2019-05-13

Great to see nominations are open for the WISE Awards, which recognise women in physical science, technology, engineering & mathematics https://t.co/X3jnGIzTo7

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2019-05-04

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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2019-04-24

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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2019-04-24

“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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2019-04-23

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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2019-04-22

1961- America's 1st successful space launch.
1969 - 1st man on the moon.
2019 - First picture of a blackhole
All brought to you by

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2019-04-11

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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2019-04-11

Mary Mantell was born in 1799. Known as the long-suffering wife of the obsessive Gideon Mantell, she taught herself to be a great paleo-artist.

Her images were in the 1st book to identify the existence of dinosaurs.

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2019-04-09

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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2019-04-08

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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2019-04-06

When Stephen W. Williams needed illustrations for his manuscript, he asked his wife, Harriet Goodhue! Check it out here: https://t.co/yJ7tKcOvDS via

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2019-04-01

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

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2019-03-25

In the field of mathematics, Emmy Noether is as important and recognized a name as Lise Meitner's is in physics. -Hermann Weyl (Göttingen, 12 July 1933): https://t.co/fCEZJonA6p

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2019-03-24