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- 5/7/1818 — b. Juliet Hopkins, American nursing leader, hospital administrator. The supervisor of the Confederate Chimborazo Hosp (Civil War); she also administered aid on the battlefields. Buried w/ full #military honors, Arlington Natl Cemetery #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #HistNursing #HistMed #OTD
- Reposted by STEMfem🌊 Speaker Spotlight: Makadunyiswe (Maka) Doublejoy Ngulube Maka Ngulube is a coastal geomorphologist whose work focuses on climate change adaptation and nature-based coastal solutions. #CZC2025 #SpeakerSpotlight #WomenInSTEM #ClimateLeadership #NatureBasedSolutions #CoastalZoneCanada #RisingTIDES
- Reposted by STEMfemTwo months ago, Senamile Masango passed away at the age of 37. She was the first Black woman in South Africa to become a nuclear physicist, and a champion of STEM education for African girls. We don't know what day in May 1987 she was born, so we choose today to celebrate and remember. #WomenInSTEM
- 5/6/1882 — b. Ann Haven Morgan, American zoologist, ecologist, author and educator. A pioneer researcher of ecology and conservation. School and college science curriculums reformer; she wrote several field books that became standardized texts #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #HistSci #OTD
- Reposted by STEMfemThree cheers to acclaimed paleo-biologist UC Santa Cruz professor of ecology and evolutionary biology Beth Shapiro for being elected as a National Academy of Sciences member! 🥳 bit.ly/3GFUGjr @nationalacademies.org #academicsky #womeninstem
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- 5/5/1921 — b. Mavis Batey, English linguist, codebreaker, garden historian, conservationist. A leading female codebreaker of Italian Naval Enigma and German Enigma ciphers in England #WWII. Cracked new codes + ciphers; the last of the Bletchley “break-in” experts #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #OTD
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