Today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight features Victoria Spivey (1906-1976), an early Blues singer known for the dark and spectral quality of her songs, including "Bloodthirsty Blues", "Nightmare Blues", "It's Evil Hearted Me", and my favorite "T.B. Blues."
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Mathematician Louise Zung-nyi Loh was born 126 years ago today. She was a math professor at Ginling College from 1925 to 1948, and was dean there in 1946 and 1947. Emigrating to the US, she ultimately found work as a physicist at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
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Isabelle Olivieri in colour snapshot #WHM26 #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInSTEM
Isabelle Olivieri French agricultural engineer #biologist, specialised in evolutionary sciences. Developed mathematical modelling for evolutionary processes based on molecular phylogenetics, biodiversity conservation, speciation. New #wikipedia pg. b. #OTD 9 Mar 1957 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabell...
On today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight we feature the unforgettable Judy Canova (1913-1983), a Vaudeville performer who had a hit radio series for 12 years centered around her persona as a singing comic country bumpkin as well as a successful film career. We remember her today!
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Engineer Annette Ashberry was born 132 years ago today. She worked in munitions during World War I, then after the war was co-founder of Atalanta Ltd, an engineering company dedicated to employing women which existed from 1921 to 1937.
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Civil War nurse Emily Elizabeth Parsons was born 202 years ago today. She ran a medical ward at Fort Schuyler Medical Hospital in 1862 and worked on a medical steamship during the Vicksburg campaign. Her memoirs are an indispensable glimpse into the world of Civil War nursing.
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Organometallic chemist Miwako Mori was born 85 years ago today. She won the Saruhashi Prize in 1991 for her revolutionary methods of harnessing metals in the synthesis of pharmaceutical backbone chemicals, and became a full professor at Hokkaido U in 1992.
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Happy birthday to Dame Ottoline Leyser: plant biologist, leader in science policy and engagement. CEO of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), Regius Professor of Botany at University of Cambridge @womeninstem.bsky.social @wisarchive.bsky.social @admirablewomen.bsky.social @carvehername.bsky.social
Here's a wonderful recording of Cotten performing "Freight Train", which she wrote while in her teens and has been recorded many times since. It shows her "Cotten Picking" style of using her thumb to play the melody and her index finger to play the base line.
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On today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight, we salute Elizabeth Cotten (1893-1987), whose unique style of playing guitar, called "Cotten Picking" was developed when learning to play a right handed guitar as a left-hander. She became a folk icon in the 1950s.
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Wishing a happy 89th birthday to Valentina Tereshkova who, on June 16, 1963 became the first woman to venture into space. Though her later political career has been largely lamentable, we can still celebrate this triumph of her youth.
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Today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight features Marion Dix Sullivan (1802-1860), who was the first American woman composer to score a hit popular song. Her smash was The Blue Juniata, published in 1844 and recorded by Roy Rogers nearly a century later, in 1937.
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Lynn Margulis would have been 88 years old today. Her 1966 paper "On the Origin of Mitoting Cells" was a powerful combination of older endosymbiotic theory with modern genetics that established the foundation for our modern understanding of eukaryotic cells.
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Today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight features Kitty Kallen (1921-2016), who had a small mountain of top 5 hits during the height of the Big Band era, performing with the Jimmy Dorsey and Harry James bands. Let's take a small patch of time today to remember her craft!
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Today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight features Maude Valérie White (1855-1937), who we continue to cherish for her musical settings of classic English poetry, including the work of Byron and Shelley, harnessing classical structures to deftly portray the shifts and subtleties in the words.
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Physician Anna Broomall was born 179 years ago today. For three decades, she was a physician and professor in Philadelphia, working tirelessly to bring the antiseptic practices of Europe to the US to decrease the number of women dying from infections in childbirth.
#WomenInSTEM #MedSky #BookSky ⚕️
Egyptian nuclear physicist Sameera Moussa was born 109 years ago today. She was the first woman nuclear physicist in Egypt, and spent her career passionately pursuing the use of nuclear technology in medicine as a devoted member of the Atoms for Peace movement.
#WomenInSTEM #Physics #HistSci ⚛️🧪
Today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight features Marianna Martines (1744-1812), a gifted performer who was sponsored early on by Metastasio and given her early lessons by a young Joseph Haydn, and went on to be a composer of masses, keyboard sonatas, and oratorios.
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On today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight, we feature the Fisk Jubilee Singers, formed in 1871, featuring 4 men and 5 women performers. In an age dominated by minstrel shows, the Fisk Singers presented earnest programs highlighting the dignity and power of the Black musical tradition.
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Wishing a happy 75th birthday to psychologist and geneticist Nancy Segal, who is most known for her studies of twins, and in particular of "pseudo-twins" - individuals born less than 9 months apart but who are raised as virtual siblings.
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Thanks for the article - our piece was mainly referring to the cases of living carriers immediately following Mallon, who didn't consistently have the recovery that was hoped for from the procedure. We've updated the wording to reflect that more clearly. Thanks again!
It's my 289th feature at the Women in Science Archive, all about the life of Mary Mallon, and the early history of the public health system as, armed with the insight of bacteriology, it felt its way forward in how to deal with the phenomenon of Living Carriers.
New Post! Today at the Archive we talk about the life of Mary Mallon, known to history as Typhoid Mary, and how the idea of Living Carriers confronted New York's public health system with a set of policy conundrums that are with us still.
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A trailblazer (which I did not appreciate enough when I sat in her lectures!).
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Dale's newest book is hitting the shelves in England soon! It covers the evolution of romantic literature from antiquity up to our present world of Romantasy, Hockey Books, and Dark Romance. He is Adorably excited about it.
Dr. Mary Hancock McLean was born 165 years ago today. The daughter of a physician, she went on to become a medical missionary, surgeon, the founder of a medical dispensary for low income women, and the first woman admitted to the St. Louis Medical Society.
#WomenInSTEM #MedSky #HistSci ⚕️
Alice Hamilton was born 157 years ago today. Her skill in analyzing the chemical toxins workers in industry were exposed to in the early 20th century pushed Harvard to admit women professors, AND she was a fearless pacifist, and advocate for women and labor.
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Today's Women In Music Spotlight features La Comtessa de Dia (c. 1140 - c. 1212), one of the handful of medieval trobairitz whom we know by name. We are fortunate enough to possess a few of her works, giving us a very important window into women's song in the Middle Ages.
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Today's Women In Music Spotlight features Ida Emerson (1873-1945), a composer and lyricist whose 1899 smash hit "Hello Ma Baby" sold a million copies of sheet music, and was immortalized in the 1955 Warner Bros cartoon One Froggy Evening!
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Wishing a happy 68th birthday to neuroscientist Brigitte Kieffer, who in 1992 published a landmark paper on the genetics of the delta opioid receptor, giving the world a powerful new way to study the mechanisms of addiction.
#WomenInSTEM #NeuroSky #BrainSky #BookSky 🧪🧠
