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This research, recently published in the journal Nature Geoscience, suggests that studying volcanic ash during eruptions could be used as a tool to forecast tremor intensity.
Continuing work by the research team, which now includes students from the Museum’s Master of Arts in Teaching Earth Science Residency Program, aims to better understand this mechanism at La Palma and worldwide. Read more about their findings in our blog post.
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What are the stars made of? At 25, Cecilia Payne answered this fundamental question in her Ph.D. thesis.
Amazing.
Alice Ball
Alice Ball was born in 1892 in Seattle, Washington. As a chemist at what is now the University of Hawaii, Ball developed an effective treatment for leprosy that involved extracting oil from chaulmoogra fruit seeds to inject into the bloodstream. Her breakthrough helped free numerous people from leper colonies, and was one of the main treatments for leprosy before the advent of sulfone antibiotics. Ball died suddenly at age 24, before she was able to publish her findings, and the college president took the credit for her work. Her contributions were forgotten for many years, until records of her work were rediscovered by researchers in the 1970s.
Image source: University of Hawaii
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(pictured: Emmy Noether; Sof'ja Vasil'evna Kovalevskaja; Katherine Johnson; Maryam Mirzakhani)
Elena Maseras
Elena Maseras was born in 1853 in Vilaseca, Spain. When Maseras enrolled to study medicine at the University of Barcelona, she became the first woman in Spain to enter higher education. She received royal permission to do so, since women were not allowed to take university coursesat the time.
Elena Maseras died in 1905.
Angella Ferguson
Angella Ferguson was born in 1925 in Washington, DC. Ferguson conducted groundbreaking research on sickle cell disease. She developed a blood test to diagnose this condition in infants. By 2010, this test had become the standard in 40 states.
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Suning Wang
Dr. Suning Wang was born in 1958 in Nanjing, China. Regarded as one of Canada's foremost inorganic chemists, Dr. Wang's research focused on development of new organometallic chemistry and luminescent materials chemistry. She co-authored over 300 publications. Dr. Wang joined the faculty of Queen's University in 1996, remaining there for the rest of her career. She won numerous honors for her work as both a scientist and an educator, including the Rutherford Memorial Medal in 2002, and election to the Royal Society of Canada in 2015.
Suning Wang died in 2020 at the age of 61.
Bernice Grafstein
Bernice Grafstein was born in 1929 in Toronto, Ontario. Grafstein is a neurophysiologist who is recognized worldwide as an expert on nerve cells. Her research established the role extracellular movement of potassium ions in propagation of spreading depression. Grafstein later developed an interest in nervous system development and regeneration, becoming known for her work on the transport of proteins within both normal and regenerating neurons. In 1985, she became the President of the Society for Neuroscience, the first woman to hold this position.
Paula T. Hammond
Chemical engineer Paula T. Hammond was born in 1963 in Detroit, Michigan. Hammond is known for her work on polymers and nanomaterials. She has pioneered processes for using layer-by-layer assembly to create polymer films and other materials. Her lab now uses these techniques for numerous applications, including battery technology, drug delivery, and noninvasive imaging. She is head of the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT. Hammond has won several awards and her work has been widely cited. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
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Anita Roberts
Molecular biologist Anita Roberts was born in 1942 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Roberts' research focused on TGF-Beta, which plays an important role in both cancer and wound healing, and her work has helped form the basis for new breast cancer treatment approaches. She was among the top 50 most cited biological scientists in the world, and one of the first women to become a laboratory chief at the National Institutes of Health.
Anita Roberts died in 2006 at the age of 64.
Image: Bill Branson, National Cancer Institute
Constance Reid
Constance Reid was born in 1918 in St. Louis, Missouri. Reid was known for her books about mathematics and biographies of mathematicians. Her writing was admired by mathematicians because it made their work accessible to laypeople. Reid's most notable work was her biography of David Hilbert. Her other successful books include From Zero To Infinity: What Makes Numbers Interesting, published in 1955 and continuously in print for more than fifty years.
Constance Reid died in 2010 at the age of 92.
Dorothea Bate
Paleontologist and archaeozoologist Dorothea Bate was born in 1878 in Carmarthen, Wales. Bate worked for the Natural History Museum in London for 50 years. She got her job at the museum in 1898, three decades before women were allowed to become official members of the scientific staff. Bate became recognized internationally for her expertise in fossil mammals, and published more than 80 papers and reviews over the course of her scientific career. She and her fellow archaeologist Dorothy Garrod discovered more than 50 species together.
Dorothea Bate died in 1951 at the age of 72.
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“Since her death in 1979, the woman who discovered what the universe is made of has not so much as received a memorial plaque. Her newspaper obituaries do not mention her greatest discovery. […] Every high school student knows that Isaac Newton discovered gravity, that Charles Darwin discovered evolution, and that Albert Einstein discovered the relativity of time. But when it comes to the composition of our universe, the textbooks simply say that the most abundant atom in the universe is hydrogen. And no one ever wonders how we know.”
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Jeremy Knowles, discussing the complete lack of recognition Cecilia Payne gets, even today, for her revolutionary discovery. (via alliterate)
OH WAIT LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT CECILIA PAYNE.
Cecilia Payne’s mother refused to spend money on her college education, so she won a scholarship to Cambridge.
Cecilia Payne completed her studies, but Cambridge wouldn’t give her a degree because at that time there's not much exposure for woman, so she said to heck with that and moved to the United States to work at Harvard.
Cecilia Payne was the first person ever to earn a Ph.D. in astronomy from Radcliffe College, with what Otto Strauve called “the most brilliant Ph.D. thesis ever written in astronomy.”
Not only did Cecilia Payne discover what the universe is made of, she also discovered what the sun is made of (Henry Norris Russell, a fellow astronomer, is usually given credit for discovering that the sun’s composition is different from the Earth’s, but he came to his conclusions four years later than Payne—after telling her not to publish).
Cecilia Payne is the reason we know basically anything about variable stars (stars whose brightness as seen from earth fluctuates). Literally every other study on variable stars is based on her work.
Cecilia Payne was the first woman to be promoted to full professor from within Harvard, and is often credited with breaking the glass ceiling for women in the Harvard science department and in astronomy, as well as inspiring entire generations of women to take up science.
Cecilia Payne is awesome and everyone should know her.
Photograph: Schlesinger Library.
[Image: Black and white photo of Cecilia Payne sitting at a desk, a book open in front of her.]
Christine Darden worked at NASA for 40 years, helping make supersonic planes quieter and forging a path for women to follow in her footsteps
An interview with NASA engineer Christine Darden.
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