Thanks for all your tweets yesterday highlighting the significant accomplishments of so many extraordinary women in science. Below are a few of our favourites so far.
- Catherine Duigan @kate_llyn - #Science140 Rachel Carson founder of the environmental movement with Silent Spring opened our eyes to the impact of DDT
- Ness T @ceaselessness - Ada Lovelace wrote what is considered the first computer program — that is, an algorithm encoded for processing by a machine. #science140
- Catherine Cronin @catherinecronin - #science140 Historian/biologist Evelyn Fox Keller on nature-nurture debate: heredity& environment "intricately entangled" can't be separated
- Fiona Doris @FionaDoris - "Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow" Maria Mitchell (1818) structure sunspots #science140
- David Pyle @davidmpyle - @Science140 Shortest scientific paper title? Inge Lehmann's report of her discovery of Earth's inner core is just called P'
- Aoife McLysaght @aoifemcl- Florence Nightingale was the first woman elected to fellowship of the Royal Statistical Society #science140
Mary Mullaghy @mmeureka - Marie Sklodowska Curie - The first woman to win a Nobel prize and the only woman to win two! #science140
Azeeza @krazeescientist - Rosalind Franklin collected x-ray diffraction data that helped Watson and Crick unravel the structure of DNA. The secret of #science140.- Catherine Duigan @kate_llyn - Marie Stopes, palaeobotanist, began the sexual revolution, Married Love (1918) sold over 1 m copies in 13 languages #Science140
- Sam Arman @Samosthenurus - As a child Mary Anning sold fossils to support her widowed mother, spurring the phrase 'she sells sea shells by the sea shore' #science140
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