<![CDATA[Topics tagged with womeninstem]]>https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/tags/womeninstemRSS for NodeMon, 09 Nov 2026 07:34:35 GMTInvalid Date60<![CDATA[Happy birthday to #mathematician & #computerscientist US Navy rear admiral Grace Hopper (1906-1992) who popularized the revolutionary idea of developing machine-independent programming languages based on English.]]>Happy birthday to & US Navy rear admiral Grace Hopper (1906-1992) who popularized the revolutionary idea of developing machine-independent programming languages based on English.

She began teaching at Vassar in 31 & got PhD (Yale) in 34. She found marriage & teaching less fulfilling & tried to enlist in the Navy, but was rejected then got a special exemption to 🧵

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Marie Curie worked with radioactive material with her bare hands. More than 100 years after her groundbreaking work, Sophie Hardach travels to Paris to trace the lingering radioactive fingerprints she left behind.

By Sophie Hardach

https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20250605-the-hunt-for-marie-curies-radioactive-fingerprints-in-paris

Marie Curie at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/39174

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She didn’t receive credit for her discovery for years, but that’s changing

By Elise Cutts

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/cecilia-payne-gaposchkin-stars

Cecilia Payne (including her Ph.D. thesis) at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/57304

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She'd got tired of her husband tinkering with his prototype so took it on the road with her sons. And without him.

Along the way, she made running repairs to the engine and realised there would need to be refueling stations.

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