Thread by @KingsResp

Today is #InternationalDayOfWomenInScience womeninscienceday.org Here are a small number of the many very awesome #WomenInScience, relevant to #RespEd 1/n

Marie Krogh, a Danish physician & scientist published a series of papers with her husand & collaborator, August, proving the mechanism of diffusion of oxygen across the alveolar-capillary membrane en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Kro… #RespEd #WomeninScience 2/n

Rosalind Franklin, chemist & xray crystallographer, whose work was fundamental to understanding the structure of DNA. Without this we would know almost nothing of CF, viral replication, alpha1antitryspin, lung cancer, LAM.... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalind_… #RespEd #WomeninScience

Sophia Jex Blake, who led the campaign for women to study medicine & founded 2 medical schools for women in London & Edinburgh. #RespEd is in her debt
- many of us would not be here without her #WomeninScience #Meded 4/n

Similarly Elizabeth Garrett Anderson paved the way for many after her, as the first woman to qualify in Britain as a physician & surgeon #WomeninScience #Meded 5/n

Winifred Cullis was one of the first women elected to the Physiological society. She published on a number of subjects including the condition of the #lungs on recovery from injury #WomeninScience #RespEd 6/n

Marie Skłodowska Curie conducted pioneering research on radioactivity & oversaw the first ever studies of radiotherapy for cancer. She won the Nobel prize twice! Where would #lungcancer treatment be without her!? #Womeninscience #RespEd 7/n

Patricia S. Cowings is an Aeropace psychophysiologist @NASA She invented Autogenic-Feedback Training methods, used to help humans voluntarily control 24 bodily reactions including breathing. #WomeninScience #RespEd
8/n

@NASA Gertrude Belle Elion shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology/ Medicine for innovative methods in #drugdesign. Her work led to development of AZT, Azathioprine & anti-rejection drugs! Our #lungtransplant #HIV & #vasculitis patients are grateful! #RespEd #WomenInScience 9/n

@NASA There are many many more #WomeninScience who have led advances in #respiratory medicine! Do share your heros with us! 10/n

@NASA Some inspirational #WomenInScience in #RespEd we recommend you follow include our own @KingsCollegeLon #breathlessness colleagues @cjolley192 @kesleeman @ij_higginson @SBajwah 11/n

@NASA @KingsCollegeLon @cjolley192 @kesleeman @ij_higginson @SBajwah We're also inspired by #RespEd friends @e_sapey @MonaBafadhel @BinitaKane @lungsatwork @charlot_summers @addy_charlotte @DrJoPorter @REvans_Breathe @AHPLeader @Dr_Allie_Hare @DrJessPotter @lung_live4eva @jofeary #WomeninScience