Ceryl
@politicdormouse
Historian Curator Wikimedian 🤓🏴🇪🇺 🗃️ Hic Sunt Dracones 🐑🍬 “Wiki Medium” ☠️ (you need to be dead before I write about you). History of #WomenInSTEM & other things that catch my interest. Every month is #WomensHistoryMonth here
Letitia Chitty structural analytical #engineer analysing stresses of airframes, ships & civil engineering structures. 1st R Aero Society female Fellow & recipient of Telford Medal. @wes1919.bsky.social member worked @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social b #OTD 15 Jul 1897 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letitia...
Ella M. Collin BSc PhD FRIC #Metallurgist specialising in analysis of non-ferrous & precious metals. Later HM Schools Technical Inspector & 1952 @wes1919.bsky.social President. Campaigned on night working laws & equal pay issues b. #OTD 15 Jul 1903 #WomenInSTEM en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ella_Ma...
Mary Taylor Slow UK physicist worked on theory of radio waves & application of differential equations to physics. 1920 graduated @GirtonCollege PhD @uniGoettingen Sci Officer@ Radio Research Station 1st woman to study radio as profession b #OTD 15 Jul 1898 bit.ly/3pMn9sP
Sonja Lapajne Oblak #Slovenian architect. 1st Slovenian woman civil engineer graduate at Univerza v Ljubljani, Slovenia's 1st female urban planner. #WWII partisan fighter, survived Ravensbruck concentration camp, part of rebuilding #Yugoslavia b. #OTD 15 Jul 1906 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonja_L...
Adele Racheli #Italian #engineer 1 of 1st women @polimi #Milan 1920 graduated in industrial mechanical engineering. 1925 founded patent protection office to protect intellectual property. Had 5 children always earned more than husband b. #OTD 14 Jul 1897 #WomenInSTEM en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adele_R...
Gwen Alston (née Hannah Gwendolen Shone) #aerodynamicist & #educationalist. #WWII worked on spinning tunnels & aircraft flight-testing & later in flight education & as HM Inspector. Her test pilot Winkle Brown called her "a truly remarkable lady boffin" d 14 Jul 1993 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwen_Al...
Maude Dickinson "High Priestess of Hygiene". Inventor of “vegetable radium” used 4 cleaning water pipes, curing eczema, strengthening concrete & improving loaves of yeastless bread, sent 1915 to PoWs in Germany “so very fresh...able to enjoy it even after 3 weeks" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maude_D...
Greta Woxén nee Westberg #Sweden's 1st female civil engineer, graduated @kthuniversity.bsky.social 1928, called "Electric Girl". Worked for Elektricitetverksföreningen electricity company, then became teacher after career break to raise her family b. #OTD 12 Jul 1902 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greta_W...
Margot Taulé 1st woman engineer architect in #DominicanRepublic. 1948 Engineering & Architecture grad @ Uni de Santo Domingo. Structural engineer 4 Dominican National Congress building. 1966 founding staff member Uni Nacional Pedro Henriquez Urena d #OTD 11 Jul 2008 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margot_...
Jeanne Guiot French engineer #WWI metallurgist 4 navy & heavy industry. Feminist, promoted women's access 2 scientific & civic opportunities. 1922 1st woman member Société des ingénieurs civils d'France. 1 of 72 #WomenInSTEM 2B added 2 Eiffel Tower d #OTD 11 Jul 1963 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_...
Janken Wiel-Hansen #Norwegian Swedish athlete, feminist. Worked in publishing, took up fencing in 30s, soon international champion ‘D’Artagnan of Stockholm.’ Founded S'holm Women's Fencing Club. Life story rediscovered in suitcase @ Østfold Museum b. #OTD 11 Jul 1868 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janken_...
112 years ago today, #OTD 11 Jul 1914 Beatrice Blore Browne became 1st woman to drive a car (a 10 horse power Singer Ten) up #GreatOrme #Llandudno #NorthWales (w' gradient of 1 in 3) She was 6 months pregnant at the time. Her stunning gravestone commemorates the feat en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatric...
Paulette Libermann French mathematician of differential geometry. Libermann foliation named 4 her. Persecuted by Vichy anti-Jewish laws, 1942 hid 2 yrs. 1944 got agrégation. 1945-7 @ Oxford Uni. 1947-51 research, 1953 PhD. 1958 Prof @ Uni of Rennes d #OTD 10 Jul 2007 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulett...
Elsbeth Steinheil, 1917 1st German woman mech eng grad, @ Tech Uni Munich. Father said "If..no son but a daughter & a profession in which he needs help & a successor, then he simply lets his daughter learn the necessary things & everything is won" b. #OTD 10 Jul 1893 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsbeth...
Beatrice Cave-Browne-Cave #mathematician studied @GirtonCollege then pioneering work on mathematics of #aeronautics. 1920 awarded MBE 'for services in connection with the War' as publication prohibited by Official Secrets Act for 50 yrs d. #OTD 9 July 1947 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatric...
Joy Lim Arthur #Filipina US Electronic Engineer. 1956 BSc eng @ Purdue Uni 1 of 2 women in class of 165. 1966 1st woman eng MSc New Mexico State Uni. 1st woman engineer @ White Sands Missile Range 1958-2005 electronic warfare @ US Army Research Lab. d #OTD 9 Jul 2015 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_Lim...
Eleanor Pressly US aeronautical engineer in sounding rocket program @NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Oversaw launches @ White Sands Missile Range & Fort Churchill "No matter how many times it happens, I can never get over the excitement of a launching" #WomenInSTEM en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor...
Dorothy Stanley-Turner UK racing driver, competed in sports car & rally events. Raced in 1937 24 Hours of Le Mans, 1939 set new woman's record @ Shelsley Walsh Speed Hill Climb in 2-litre Alta. Served 10 yrs in WAAF as Assistant Section Officer. d. #OTD 8 Jul 1995 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy...
Rebeca Uribe Bone 1st woman to graduate in engineering in #Colombia. Chemical engineer & 1st woman to graduate in Chemical Engineering from Pontifical-Bolivarian University of Medellin, she worked in the Bavaria brewing company. d. #OTD 7 Jul 1917 #WomenInSTEM en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebeca_...
Marie-Louise Jacotin, French mathematician. 1926 2nd in exam 4 ENS, demoted to 21st as woman. Press campaign 4 reinstatement. Studied fluid mechanics algebra & number theory. 1943 1st woman French uni maths prof 1/72 proposed 2B added 2 #EiffelTower b #OTD 7 Jul 1905 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-L...
Dorothéa Klumpke 1861–1942 US astronomer. 1893 PhD on rings of Saturn @ Uni of Paris. 1886 Director, Bureau of Measurements @ Paris Observatory on Carte du Ciel project. Worked w husband to photograph 52 Herschel areas of nebulosity. Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothe...
Elizabeth Killick British naval electronics engineer worked on radar & weapons systems @ Ministry of Defence. 1982 1st woman elected Fellow @raeng.org.uk Didn't like being called a "woman engineer" & wouldn't let @wes1919.bsky.social interview her. d. #OTD 7 Jul 2019 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabe...
Gabrielle Patterson, UK's 1st woman flying instructor & 1 of "first eight" #WWII Air Transport Auxiliary female #pilots in 1940. She instigated the #AmyJohnson Memorial Fund, in memory of her late #ATA pilot colleague in 1941. b. #OTD 6 Jul 1905 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel...
Yvonne Odic, French mechanical engineer. Studied maths @ Uni of Nancy degrees in mech eng & aerodynamics. Worked 4 Citroen @ start of #WW1, developed special steels in armament factories in Paris. 1/72 #WomenInSTEM proposed 2B added 2 #EiffelTower. b. #OTD 6 Jul 1890 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvonne_...
1934 Jeanie Dicks undertook 1st permanent electrification of #Winchester #Cathedral #Hampshire. Electrifying nave meant removing & reburying coffins except Jane Austen’s (moved gently to side). Press called her the "girl engineer" - she was 40! d. #OTD 6 Jul 1980. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanie_...
Nina Cameron Walley (née Graham) became 1st woman to receive an engineering degree in Britain, from @liverpooluni.bsky.social #Liverpool #OTD 6 July 1912. Her final #CivilEngineering exam included "a gruelling 6 hour exam" where she had to design a railway bridge en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Ca...
Wiktoria Goryńska #Polish painter graphic artist. Specialised in woodcuts, book graphics. 1 of 1st women in #Poland in fencing, wrote articles about it. #WWII codename "Leti" in underground. Post Warsaw Uprising died @ Ravensburg concentration camp b. #OTD 6 Jul 1902 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiktori...