Thread by @teknikpedagog

December 1st and today starts my traditional Women in STEM advent calendar. Some I have tweeted about before, some are new. Time to open door no 1.

#WomenInSTEM #STEMcalendar #AdventCalendar #STEMedu #STEAM #TechEdu #DandT #DT

Door 1 - Hertha Ayrton. British engineer, mathematician, physicist, inventor. Known for her work with the electric arc + discovery with waves and ripple.

1899, she was the first woman ever to read her own paper before the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE).
#WomenInSTEM

Door 2 - Katharine Burr Blodgett. Physicist and chemist. Invented the nonreflective glas. Which improved everything from eyeglasses to the camera on your phone. She was the first woman to receive a PhD in physics from the @Cambridge_Uni
#WomenInSTEM #STEMcalendar #AdventCalendar

@Cambridge_Uni Door 3 - Vera Molnár. Pioneeing the use of the computer as a creative medium. In 1968 she began working with computers, where she began to create algorithmic paintings.
#WomenInSTEM #STEMcalendar #AdventCalendar #STEAM #Computing #CreativeCode

Door 4 - Dr Ann Tsukamoto. She is primarily credited with discovering blood stem cells and inventing a way to isolate them. Her discoveries have paved the way for groundbreaking research in cancer treatment.
#WomenInSTEM #STEMcalendar #AdventCalendar #STEMM

Door 5 -Mary Anderson inventor. Popularly credited with inventing the first operational windscreen wiper in 1903. A “window cleaning device for electric cars and other vehicles to remove snow, ice, or sleet from the window,” (fr. patent)
#WomenInSTEM #STEMcalendar #AdventCalendar

Door 6 - Dr. Sarah Stewart, microbiology. She was among the first to demonstrate a link between viruses and cancer. E.g. how human papillomavirus can cause cervical cancer. Stewart was nominated for the Nobel Prize twice.
#WomenInSTEM #STEMcalendar #AdventCalendar #WomenInSTEMM

Door 7 - Olga D. González-Sanabria, chemical engineering. She and her technical contributions played an instrumental role in developing the batteries which helps enable the International Space Station power system.

#WomenInSTEM #STEMcalendar #AdventCalendar #engineering

Door 8 - Vesta Stout. The inventor of duct tape.

During World War II, she developed what led to the birth of duct tape. Originally named “Duck Tape” because, as the story goes, it was
1) waterproof, like a duck and
2) it was made with cotton duck fabric.

#WomenInSTEM

Door 9 - Dr Merieme Chadid, @meriemechadid. Astronomer, explorer and engineer astrophysicist. Considered the world's 1st astronomer to be committed to installing the large astronomical observatory in Antarctica, doing pioneering work.
#WomenInSTEM #STEMcalendar #AdventCalendar

Door 10 - Prof. Dr Lise Meitner. Nuclear physicist. Co-discovered nuclear fission.

Lise Meitner was nominated 48 times for the Nobel Prize (physics and chemistry). Never awarded. Not even awarded the 1944 @NobelPrize in Chemistry for nuclear fission.

#WomenInSTEM #NobelPrizeDay

Door 11 - Fatima al-Fihri, founder of the world’s first university - The University of Al-Qarawiyyin. Founded in 859 BCE and still operating. @UNESCO lists it as the oldest existing, continually operating higher educational institution in the world.
#WomenInSTEM #STEMcalendar

Door 12 - Nadezhda Agaltsova developer of the wide-angle aerial survey lenses for cartographic purposes. Aerial survey is a method of collecting geomatics or other imagery by using airplanes, helicopters, balloons or other aerial methods.
#WomenInSTEM #STEMcalendar

Door 13 - Martine de Bertereau, also known as Baroness de Beausoleil. The first recorded female mineralogist as well as mining engineer. Imprisoned in France on suspicion of witchcraft. Died in jail.

#WomenInSTEM #STEMcalendar #WomenInMining #ingénieur

Door 14 - Chien-Shiung Wu, particle and experimental physicist. Wu was the first scientist to confirm the theory of radioactive beta decay. Also known for her “Wu experiment,” - a breakthrough that led to a Nobel Prize awarded to her male colleagues.
#WomenInSTEM #STEMcalendar

Door 15 - Dr Tsai-Fan Yu, physician. She discovered that gout, a painful inflammation of joints, was caused by elevated levels of uric acid in the bloodstream. She helped to develop drugs to treat the disease which are still in use today.
#WomenInSTEMM #STEMcalendar #WomenInSTEM

Door 16 - Inge Lehmann, seismologist and geophysicist. She discovered that the Earth has a solid inner core inside a molten outer core.

In 1987, age 99, she wrote her last scientific article.

#STEMcalendar #WomenInSTEM #GeoWomen

Door 17 - Karlie Noon, astronomer. First indigenous woman in Australia to graduate with double degree in maths and physics. Her research has e.g involved understanding the sophisticated astronomic knowledge deeply embedded within indigenous culture.
#STEMcalendar #WomenInSTEM

Door 18 - Funke Opeke, electrical engineer. She made the 1st private, open access, fibre optic submarine cable from West Africa to Portugal happen. Sparking an internet revolution in Nigeria and thereby stimulated what is now Africa's biggest economy.
#STEMcalendar #WomenInSTEM

Door 19 - Margaret Hamilton, software engineer. She is credited with coining the term "software engineering".
Picture below: Hamilton in 1969 with the source code her team developed for the Apollo missions. Landing the first man on the moon.
#STEMcalendar #WomenInSTEM #Coders

Door 20 - Eunice Foote, scientist, inventor. She is the pioneering scientist who first theorized and demonstrated the greenhouse effect.

#STEMcalendar #WomenInSTEM #SDG #ClimateAction

Door 21 - Joy Buolamwini computer scientist. Uncovered large racial and gender bias in AI services from tech companies. Shattered the myth of machine neutrality. Founded the Algorithmic Justice League to create a world with more ethical and inclusive technology.
#womeninSTEM

Door 22 - Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier, chemist.
Known as the mother of modern chemistry. She played a pivotal role in the translation of several scientific works and was instrumental to the standardization of the scientific method.

#WomenInSTEM #STEMcalendar #WomenInChemistry

Door 23 - Judith Love Cohen, aerospace engineer. Helped design the critical Abort Guidance System that allowed the Apollo 13 astronauts to safely make it back to Earth.

In retirement, she published books to encourage young girls to study STEM subjects. #womeninSTEM #STEMcalendar

Door 24 - final door

Ever since the beginning of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics women has always been influencing, evolving and pioneering the subjects. Not always credited or visible but always there.

#STEMcalendar #WomenInSTEM #SeasonGreetings #FestiveSeason

Extra post.
The final door needs to also be a celebration of all girls becoming future women in STEM. May they always feel welcomed, included and belonging in the STEM community.

#GirlsInSTEM #WomenInSTEM #DT #GirlsLikeTech #FutureSTEM #SciComm #FutureReady

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