The Woman the Mercury Astronauts Couldn’t Do Without
Katherine Johnson negotiated the dynamics of both race and space.
By Margot Lee Shetterly, Illustrations by Richie Pope (from the archives)
Edited 250d ago
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This is Sechi Katō (1893-1989) in 1918. It's her graduation photo from a women's college in Tokyo.
Eventually she would become the first woman principal investigator at RIKEN, Japan's national chemistry & physics institute. She faced incredibly daunting hurdles before then...
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Happy birthday Rosalind Franklin (1920 – 1958), #chemist & x-ray #crystallographer whose x-ray diffraction images were instrumental to discovering double-helix structure of #DNA, made important contributions to #carbon & #virus research, was 1 of the great scientists of the 20th century.
Watson’s bio lead some to (inaccurately) joke, “What did Watson and Crick discover?” “Rosalind Franklin’s notes.” 🧵
A photograph by Berenice Abbott of a woman wiring an IBM computer, 1948. #Photography #WomenInSTEM #BereniceAbbott
"Babbage saw the analytical engine as a mathematical device. After all, it primarily stored and operated on numbers. But Lovelace recognized that a machine designed to crunch numbers could do much more if the numbers represented other things.
“Supposing, for instance, that the fundamental relations of pitched sounds in the science of harmony and of musical composition were susceptible of such expression and adaptations, the engine might compose elaborate and scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity or extent.”"
Happy Ada Lovelace Day!
It's that time of year again. Pumpkin spice latte time? No. Well, yes, but it's also time to ......
Support the next generation of women in technology!
The Women in CompSci and Eng (WiCSE) chapter at Cal State Fullerton (CSUF) is looking to fund Student Study Group Leaders.
If that's enough for you I'll just drop the donation link here, but read on if you want more details...