There have always been courageous women who accomplished extraordinary feats in order to advance our understanding of the universe.
The Royal Astronomical Society will be highlighting one woman in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) every day until the end of Women's History Month 2019. The tweets will be in rough chronological order, tracking the history of women in STEM for thousands of years.
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Mar 2018, Apr 2018, May 2018, Jun 2018, Jul 2018, Aug 2018,
Sep 2018, Oct 2018, Nov 2018, Dec 2018, Jan 2019, Feb 2019, Mar 2019.
Ayana Holloway Arce is an American physicist. She completed her PhD @Harvard in 2006,working with data @Fermilab. She is currently a professor of physics at @DukeU and uses data from @CERN to study particle physics beyond the standard model#STEMlegends #WomenInSTEM #BlackandSTEM pic.twitter.com/5cugEhQvd3
— RAS Women in STEM (@RAS_Women) December 31, 2018
Jean Hixson was a pilot who successfully trained as an astronaut as part of Mercury 13 in 1959. During WWII, she flew B-25 twin engine bombers as part of Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP). She was the second woman to break the sound barrier in 1957. #STEMlegends #WomenInSTEM pic.twitter.com/sctGEdp0E3
— RAS Women in STEM (@RAS_Women) December 30, 2018
Esther Conwell was an American chemist and physicist. She gained her PhD from @UChicago in 1948. She later worked @BellLabs and @Xerox. She joined @UofR in 1998 where she became a professor. Her research focused on the flow of electrons through DNA.#STEMlegends #WomenInSTEM pic.twitter.com/tF4gV5skfx
— RAS Women in STEM (@RAS_Women) December 29, 2018
Kimberly Bryant (@6Gems) is an American electrical engineer. She earned a degree in electrical engineering at @VanderbiltU and founded @BlackGirlsCode in 2011. This teaches computer programming to school-age girls in after-school and summer programs.#STEMlegends #WomenInSTEM pic.twitter.com/TNT3thVr9Q
— RAS Women in STEM (@RAS_Women) December 28, 2018
Phyllis Freier was an American astrophysicist. She received her PhD from @UMNews in 1950. During this time, she helped show that elements heavier than helium exist in cosmic rays. She became a Professor of Physics at @UMNews in 1975. #STEMlegends #WomenInSTEM pic.twitter.com/BHin0tNPhS
— RAS Women in STEM (@RAS_Women) December 27, 2018
Jane Briggs Hart was an American aviator, and the first licensed female helicopter pilot in Michigan. She was one of the Mercury 13. This was composed of thirteen women who underwent the same physical tests developed by NASA for astronauts in 1959. #STEMlegends #WomenInSTEM pic.twitter.com/UZhQzH9bqz
— RAS Women in STEM (@RAS_Women) December 26, 2018
Jane Briggs Hart was an American aviator, and the first licensed female helicopter pilot in Michigan. She was one of the Mercury 13. This was composed of thirteen women who underwent the same physical tests developed by NASA for astronauts in 1959. #STEMlegends #WomenInSTEM pic.twitter.com/UZhQzH9bqz
— RAS Women in STEM (@RAS_Women) December 26, 2018
Rajeshwari Chatterjee was an Indian engineer and the first woman engineer from Karnataka.She gained her PhD @UMich in 1953 and then joined @iiscbangalore, where she became a professor and chairperson of the department of Electro-communication Engineering#STEMlegends #WomenInSTEM pic.twitter.com/TjblMAAQlV
— RAS Women in STEM (@RAS_Women) December 25, 2018
Margaret Ikape (@ikape_margaret) is a Nigerian astronomer and teacher. She studied for her degree at @UNNPride, and spent time in @waissya in Ghana, which was started with the help of @UofT’s @DunlapInstitute, where Ikape is studying for her PhD. #STEMlegends #WomenInSTEM pic.twitter.com/bFQzNJbOOj
— RAS Women in STEM (@RAS_Women) December 24, 2018
Deborah Jackson is an American physicist. She earned her PhD @Stanford in 1980, working on high-resolution spectroscopy. She joined @NASAJPL in 1992 and contributed to the Mars Global Surveyor and Cassini–Huygens missions. She joined @NSF in 2006.#STEMlegends #WomenInSTEM pic.twitter.com/qamr91ymnT
— RAS Women in STEM (@RAS_Women) December 23, 2018
Stephanie DeLuca is a chemist. She earned her PhD in Chemical and Physical Biology from @VanderbiltU. She currently works @AmerChemSociety Office of Public Affairs where she helps develop public policy. She is blind.#STEMlegends #WomenInSTEM #DisabilityHistoryMonth pic.twitter.com/n2zsjD0XUy
— RAS Women in STEM (@RAS_Women) December 22, 2018
Regina Olson Hughes was an American scientific illustrator who specialised in botanical art. She gained her master's degree @GallaudetU in 1920 and worked for @smithsonian.She became deaf after contracting scarlet fever as a child#STEMlegends #WomenInSTEM #DisabilityHistoryMonth pic.twitter.com/iKzxK0zUn5
— RAS Women in STEM (@RAS_Women) December 21, 2018
Elizabeth Blackwell was a British physician. She became the first woman to gain an MD in the US in 1849 and be on the Medical Register @gmcuk. She was a pioneer in promoting the education of women, and was blind in one eye.#STEMlegends #WomenInSTEM #DisabilityHistoryMonth pic.twitter.com/NyhwmHg5P8
— RAS Women in STEM (@RAS_Women) December 20, 2018
Dora Raymaker (@dora_raymaker) conducts research in collaboration with disability and mental health communities @Portland_State. She is also co-director of @aaspireproject, and associate editor of the journal ‘Autism in Adulthood’#STEMlegends #WomenInSTEM #DisabilityHistoryMonth pic.twitter.com/BhwFh1mT58
— RAS Women in STEM (@RAS_Women) December 19, 2018
Amy Bower (@bower_amy_s) is an oceanographer. She gained her PhD from @universityofri and is Senior Scientist @WHOI. She researches ocean currents and their role in climate and is an advocate for blind individuals in the sciences#STEMlegends #WomenInSTEM #DisabilityHistoryMonth pic.twitter.com/B8Urvorc4z
— RAS Women in STEM (@RAS_Women) December 18, 2018
Holly Witteman (@hwitteman) is an associate professor of medicine at @universitelaval. She has a PhD in human factors engineering and specialises in human-computer interactions in health education. She lives with type 1 diabetes.#STEMlegends #WomenInSTEM #DisabilityHistoryMonth pic.twitter.com/FC5oLnm9G4
— RAS Women in STEM (@RAS_Women) December 17, 2018
Helen Taussig was an American cardiologist. She founded paediatric cardiology and developed procedures and surgeries to extend the life of babies while at @HopkinsMedicine. She became deaf in the later part of her career. #STEMlegends #WomenInSTEM #DisabilityHistoryMonth pic.twitter.com/TUl0ZP1Yrz
— RAS Women in STEM (@RAS_Women) December 16, 2018
Catherine Drennan (@Drennan_Lab) is an American biochemist. She gained her PhD @UMich and is a Professor of Chemistry and Biology @MIT and @HHMINEWS. She is dyslexic and like many others, believes this offers advantages in science#STEMlegends #WomenInSTEM #DisabilityHistoryMonth pic.twitter.com/J0cboS4UfF
— RAS Women in STEM (@RAS_Women) December 15, 2018
Mona Samer Minkara (@mona_minkara) is an American chemist and spokesperson as a blind scientist. She completed her PhD at @UF and works at @UMNChemistry where her research involves studying surfactants using Monte Carlo algorithms#STEMlegends #WomenInSTEM #DisabilityHistoryMonth pic.twitter.com/fBIAMlAvTz
— RAS Women in STEM (@RAS_Women) December 14, 2018
Ann Bancroft is an American teacher and adventurer. She was the first woman to cross both polar ice caps to reach the North and South Poles, and led the first all-female expedition to the South Pole in 1992-1993. She is dyslexic. #STEMlegends #WomenInSTEM #DisabilityHistoryMonth pic.twitter.com/BbSU6JxM3m
— RAS Women in STEM (@RAS_Women) December 13, 2018
Carol Greider is an American molecular biologist. She pioneered research on the structure of telomeres, the ends of the chromosomes, and shared the 2009 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. She is dyslexic. #STEMlegends #WomenInSTEM #DisabilityHistoryMonth pic.twitter.com/ScWMaJSyGi
— RAS Women in STEM (@RAS_Women) December 12, 2018
Dawn Prince-Hughes is an American anthropologist. She is autistic and the author of ‘Songs of the Gorilla Nation: My Journey Through Autism’ and the editor of ‘Aquamarine Blue 5: Personal Stories of College Students with Autism’. #STEMlegends #WomenInSTEM #DisabilityHistoryMonth pic.twitter.com/fowT2Z2Qzt
— RAS Women in STEM (@RAS_Women) December 11, 2018
Anne Taylor (@taylor209) worked as director of Access Technology @NFB_voice for over ten years. She now works for @Microsoft, where she helps create products for visually impaired people using AI and deep neural networks. #STEMlegends #WomenInSTEM #DisabilityHistoryMonth pic.twitter.com/2StI3KoV2j
— RAS Women in STEM (@RAS_Women) December 10, 2018
Barbara McClintock was an American cytogeneticist. She was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of genetic transposition. She is featured in‘Different Like Me:My Book of Autism Heroes’by J Elder#STEMlegends #WomenInSTEM #DisabilityHistoryMonth pic.twitter.com/QIqyx0ZnhS
— RAS Women in STEM (@RAS_Women) December 9, 2018
Tilly Edinger was a German-American paleontologist and founder of paleoneurology. She earned her PhD in zoology @goetheuni in 1921.She was Jewish and worked in secret during Nazi Germany.She worked @MCZHarvard in 1940 and was deaf#STEMlegends #WomenInSTEM #DisabilityHistoryMonth pic.twitter.com/AtxrqJbJdv
— RAS Women in STEM (@RAS_Women) December 8, 2018
Emily May Armstrong (@emilyxarmstrong) is a PhD student at @UofGlasgow, investigating root systems and how plants respond to salt stresses. She also works to change research around disability.#STEMlegends #WomenInSTEM #DisabilityHistoryMonth #ehlersdanlos pic.twitter.com/cRxBEpEaYA
— RAS Women in STEM (@RAS_Women) December 7, 2018
Joy Adamson was a naturalist from former Austria-Hungary. She is most well-known as the author of ‘Born Free’. She is mentioned as being autistic in ‘Asperger’s Syndrome: A Gift or a Curse?’by Michael Fitzgerald and Viktoria Lyons#STEMlegends #WomenInSTEM #DisabilityHistoryMonth pic.twitter.com/tUOOAD3x2H
— RAS Women in STEM (@RAS_Women) December 6, 2018
Jen Connelly (@MCNebrewla) is an observational astronomer and lecturer of physics at @RITtigers. Her research interests are in galaxy groups.#STEMlegends #WomenInSTEM #DisabilityHistoryMonth #DisabledAndSTEM #LGBTQAndSTEM pic.twitter.com/DmlktavLxk
— RAS Women in STEM (@RAS_Women) December 5, 2018
Julia Robinson was an American mathematician. She completed her PhD at @UCBerkeley in 1948 and helped resolve Hilbert's 10th problem. She is featured in ‘Different Like Me: My Book of Autism Heroes’ by Jennifer Elder.#STEMlegends #WomenInSTEM #DisabilityHistoryMonth pic.twitter.com/hYjmw53hbs
— RAS Women in STEM (@RAS_Women) December 4, 2018
Charlotte Scott was a British mathematician. She became an Associate Professor of Mathematics @BrynMawrCollege in 1885, and Professor from 1888 to 1917. She developed rheumatoid arthritis and became increasingly deaf in the 1906.#STEMlegends #WomenInSTEM #DisabilityHistoryMonth pic.twitter.com/v1arw2oMzr
— RAS Women in STEM (@RAS_Women) December 3, 2018
Ruth Benedict was an American anthropologist. She gained her PhD at @Columbia in 1923. It was here that she met Margaret Mead, with whom she shared a romantic relationship. Benedict was deaf having contracted measles as a child. #STEMlegends #WomenInSTEM #DisabilityHistoryMonth pic.twitter.com/g94fhawDrE
— RAS Women in STEM (@RAS_Women) December 2, 2018
Gabi Serrato Marks (@gserratomarks) is a Mexican-American science communicator and PhD candidate in marine geology at @MIT who advocates for disabled scientists. #STEMlegends #WomenInSTEM #DisabilityHistoryMonth #DisabledandSTEMhttps://t.co/wWnZtGPzT1 pic.twitter.com/VQOI09uirq
— RAS Women in STEM (@RAS_Women) December 1, 2018