Kavita Krishnaswamy (@KavitaKrish21) is a PhD student in Computer Science at @UMBC. Her research involves developing robotic systems to increase independence for people with disabilities like her own. #STEMlegends #WomenInSTEM #DisabilityHistoryMonth pic.twitter.com/RFa2hN4w49

— RAS Women in STEM (@RAS_Women) November 30, 2018

Jesse Shanahan (@Enceladosaurus) is an astrophysicist and data scientist at @BoozAllen. She is currently working on @galaxyzoo with @chrislintott. Shanahan cofounded @AAS_WGAD and is the creator of #disabledandSTEM. #STEMlegends #WomenInSTEM #DisabilityHistoryMonth pic.twitter.com/89gn9A1Vra

— RAS Women in STEM (@RAS_Women) November 29, 2018

Dian Fossey was an American primatologist and conservationist. She studied mountain gorilla groups from the 1960s until her death in 1985. She is featured in ‘Different Like Me: My Book of Autism Heroes’ by Jennifer Elder.#STEMlegends #WomenInSTEM #DisabilityHistoryMonth pic.twitter.com/3M0Jj60Tk3

— RAS Women in STEM (@RAS_Women) November 28, 2018

Nansie Sharpless was a biochemist from Pennsylvania. She gained her PhD at @waynestate and worked in the Department of Psychiatry at @EinsteinMed on treatments for Parkinson’s disease. She became deaf at 14. #STEMlegends #WomenInSTEM #DisabilityHistoryMonth pic.twitter.com/Y5ip1JqfWx

— RAS Women in STEM (@RAS_Women) November 27, 2018

Aziza Baccouche is a physicist and science filmmaker from America. She earned her PhD in nuclear physics from @UofMaryland in 2002 and worked as an @aaas Mass Media Science and Engineering fellow at CNN. She is legally blind. #STEMlegends #WomenInSTEM #DisabilityHistoryMonth pic.twitter.com/x2FpuHdWhs

— RAS Women in STEM (@RAS_Women) November 26, 2018

Farida Bedwei is a software engineer from Ghana. She has worked at Soft Company Ltd and Rancard Solutions Ltd. She is cofounder of fin-tech company Logiciel, and has studied at @UniofHerts and @cipdgimpa. She has cerebral palsy. #STEMlegends #WomenInSTEM #DisabilityHistoryMonth pic.twitter.com/gDln9jPBWk

— RAS Women in STEM (@RAS_Women) November 25, 2018

Temple Grandin is an animal scientist from Boston. She's a professor @ColoradoStateU, a consultant to the livestock industry where she is a proponent for the humane treatment of livestock, and a spokesperson as an autistic woman. #STEMlegends #WomenInSTEM #DisabilityHistoryMonth pic.twitter.com/6xr8RaoK6W

— RAS Women in STEM (@RAS_Women) November 24, 2018

Maggie Aderin-Pocock is a space scientist from London. She helped develop a spectrograph for @GeminiObs at @imperialcollege, works on @ESA_EO’s Aeolus satellite and co-presents @BBCStargazing with @chrislintott. She is dyslexic.#STEMlegends #WomenInSTEM #DisabilityHistoryMonth pic.twitter.com/TZQn4YpPpc

— RAS Women in STEM (@RAS_Women) November 23, 2018

Wanda Díaz-Merced is an astronomer from Puerto Rico. She leads @Astro4Dev’s AstroSense and is known for using sonification to turn large data sets into sound, a technique she worked on after she lost her sight as an undergraduate.#STEMlegends #WomenInSTEM #DisabilityHistoryMonth pic.twitter.com/P6hmnFxnc0

— RAS Women in STEM (@RAS_Women) November 22, 2018

Barbara Mary Middlehurst was a British astronomer and editor from Glamorgan. She became an Observer at @univofstandrews Observatory in 1951 and later worked @YerkesObs and @azstewobs. She became a Fellow @RoyalAstroSoc in 1949. #STEMlegends #WomenInSTEM pic.twitter.com/a7qJVc67D1

— RAS Women in STEM (@RAS_Women) November 21, 2018

Marie Tharp was an American geologist. Tharp and Bruce Heezen created the first map of the Atlantic Ocean floor. Tharp identified the Mid-Atlantic Ridge in 1952, although Heezen called this "girl talk", and she was not allowed aboard a ship until 1965. #STEMlegends #WomenInSTEM pic.twitter.com/KjEkrtLAaS

— RAS Women in STEM (@RAS_Women) November 20, 2018

Guro Else Gjellestad was a Norwegian physicist who studied at @UniOslo in 1950, working on magnetic variable stars. She then lectured at @UiB, specialising in earth magnetism and cosmic physics. She was elected a Fellow of @RoyalAstroSoc in 1949. #STEMlegends #WomenInSTEM pic.twitter.com/fuHBwyVbX8

— RAS Women in STEM (@RAS_Women) November 19, 2018

Xie Xide was a Chinese physicist. She graduated from Xiamen University in 1946 before gaining her PhD at @MIT in 1951. She then began working at @FudanUniversity. She founded its Modern Physics Institute in 1977 and served as president from 1983 to 1989. #STEMlegends #WomenInSTEM pic.twitter.com/rnKVFk9zk4

— RAS Women in STEM (@RAS_Women) November 18, 2018

Paris Marie Pismis de Recillas was an Armenian-Mexican astronomer. She graduated from @istanbuledu in 1937, and then studied at @Harvard before working at @UNAM_MX, where she compiled star catalogues. She became a Fellow of @RoyalAstroSoc in 1965. #STEMlegends #WomenInSTEM pic.twitter.com/cpTwV90xWo

— RAS Women in STEM (@RAS_Women) November 17, 2018

Bruria Kaufman was an Israeli physicist. She graduated gained a PhD from @Columbia in 1948 and became a research associate at @the_IAS in 1948, where she worked with Albert Einstein and contributed to the general theory of relativity. #STEMlegends #WomenInSTEM pic.twitter.com/6zQELIE0yO

— RAS Women in STEM (@RAS_Women) November 16, 2018

Clarisse Doris Hellman was an American historian specialising in the history of astronomy in the 16th and 17th centuries. She was an authority on Tycho Brahe and was elected a Fellow of @RoyalAstroSoc in 1960. #STEMlegends #WomenInSTEM pic.twitter.com/16KbtlpCO3

— RAS Women in STEM (@RAS_Women) November 15, 2018

Ruth Schmidt was an American geologist and palaeontologist from Brooklyn. She graduated with a PhD from @Columbia in 1948. She established the United States Geological Survey field office in Alaska, and worked as a professor of geology at @uaanchorage. #STEMlegends #WomenInSTEM pic.twitter.com/HrnDQqQAMx

— RAS Women in STEM (@RAS_Women) November 14, 2018

Willetta Greene Johnson is an American physicist. She gained her PhD at @UChicago in 1988 and began working at @LoyolaChicago in 1992. She also performs with @chi_sinfonietta. Her mother was the chemist Bettye Washington Greene. #STEMlegends #WomenInSTEM pic.twitter.com/CB7K731ZmS

— RAS Women in STEM (@RAS_Women) November 13, 2018

Ida Winifred Busbridge was a British mathematician. She was the highest-ranked mathematics student at @UoLondon in 1929 and later taught at @UniofOxford. She was elected a Fellow of @RoyalAstroSoc in 1948. #STEMlegends #WomenInSTEM pic.twitter.com/tawrdZSrfX

— RAS Women in STEM (@RAS_Women) November 12, 2018

Violet Florence White was a British mathematician from London. She worked for the @UoLondon Observatory and at @imperialcollege. She was elected as a Fellow @RoyalAstroSoc in 1930, where she was known as an ardent feminist and a keen motorist. #STEMlegends #WomenInSTEM pic.twitter.com/NzWRBflTQA

— RAS Women in STEM (@RAS_Women) November 11, 2018

Gertrude Scharff Goldhaber was an American nuclear physicist and Jewish woman born in Germany. She earned her PhD from the @LMU_Muenchen in 1935 before escaping to London and then the United States, where she worked at @BrookhavenLab. #STEMlegends #WomenInSTEM pic.twitter.com/BzIYvOdaJz

— RAS Women in STEM (@RAS_Women) November 10, 2018

Reva Williams is an American physicist from Chicago. She is widely considered the first black American woman astrophysicist. She was the first person to successfully work out the Penrose Mechanism to extract energy from a black hole. #STEMlegends #WomenInSTEM pic.twitter.com/2aCOmvd4Ay

— RAS Women in STEM (@RAS_Women) November 9, 2018

Caroline Winifred Herschel was the great-great-grand-daughter of the astronomer Sir William Hershel. She was elected a Fellow of @RoyalAstroSoc in 1949. #STEMlegends #WomenInSTEM pic.twitter.com/jStsFVpklr

— RAS Women in STEM (@RAS_Women) November 8, 2018

Beth Brown was an American astronomer and the first black American woman to earn a PhD at @michiganastro in 1998, working with data from the Röntgen Satellite. She then worked at @NASAGoddard where she was involved in education and outreach. #STEMlegends #WomenInSTEM pic.twitter.com/PNvnFHlnMw

— RAS Women in STEM (@RAS_Women) November 7, 2018

Aissa Wade is a mathematician from Senegal. She earned her PhD at @umontpellier in 1996. She became a full professor at @penn_state in 2016. She is editor of the journal Afrika Matematika and President of the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences. #STEMlegends #WomenInSTEM pic.twitter.com/X3gJlVnyT7

— RAS Women in STEM (@RAS_Women) November 6, 2018

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin was British chemist. She earned her PhD at @Cambridge_Uni in 1937, under John Desmond Bernal. Here, she showed X-ray crystallography could be used to determine the structure of proteins. She later worked at @UniofOxford. #STEMlegends #WomenInSTEM pic.twitter.com/6tK2csze04

— RAS Women in STEM (@RAS_Women) November 5, 2018

In 1953, Hodgkin became one of the first people to measure the structure of DNA, confirming the double-helix model that had been developed by Rosalind Franklin, Francis Crick, and James Watson earlier that year. #STEMlegends #WomenInSTEM

— RAS Women in STEM (@RAS_Women) November 5, 2018

Hodgkin won the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work on X-ray crystallography, making her the 3rd woman to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, after Marie Skłodowska Curie and Irène Joliot-Curie. The 4th women to win was Ada Yonath in 2009, the 5th was Frances Arnold in 2018.

— RAS Women in STEM (@RAS_Women) November 5, 2018

Ruby Violet Payne-Scott was an Australian astronomer and a pioneer of radio astronomy. She studied at @Sydney_Uni, where she helped show that the Earth’s magnetic field does not affect people in 1936. She was often the only woman in her class. #STEMlegends #WomenInSTEM pic.twitter.com/zjIgdzoDED

— RAS Women in STEM (@RAS_Women) November 4, 2018

Bertha Jeffreys Swirles was a British quantum physicist. She completed her PhD at @Cambridge_Uni in 1929, studying under Ralph Fowler, who had also taught Paul Dirac and Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. She became a Fellow of @RoyalAstroSoc in 1933. #STEMlegends #WomenInSTEM pic.twitter.com/9Ca9uY7O5h

— RAS Women in STEM (@RAS_Women) November 3, 2018

Jenny Rosenthal Bramley was a Russian physicist. She was the first woman to earn a PhD in physics from an American institution, graduating from @nyuniversity in 1929 and working @BklynCollege411. She was the second woman elected as a fellow of @IEEEorg. #STEMlegends #WomenInSTEM pic.twitter.com/ZibaVz6r7v

— RAS Women in STEM (@RAS_Women) November 2, 2018

Gladys Royal was an American biochemist. She gained her PhD @OhioState in 1954 and worked with her husband on research for the United States Atomic Energy Commission and the @USDA. Royal was also active in the civil rights movement. #STEMlegends #WomenInSTEM pic.twitter.com/i416rF1z8p

— RAS Women in STEM (@RAS_Women) November 1, 2018