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My final #PrinterSolstice2526 #linocut for the prompt multiplication: astronomer, mathematician, meteorologist & poet Wang Zhenyi (1768-1797), who left her impact on Qing era China during her short life. Raised by her father & grandparents, her ancestral home was in Anhui province. Her grandfather, Wang Zhefu, an avid reader & collector of books, was governor of Fengcheng County & the Xuanhua District. Her father, Wang Xichen wrote a 4-volume Collection of Medical Prescriptions. 🧵1/

Making progress on my portrait of Qing Dynasty astronomer, mathematician and poet Wang Zhenyi (1768-1797) for the #PrinterSolstice2526 prompt multiplication.

#linocut #printmaking #histsci #womenInSTEM

Since my son’s been sick this week, I have been looking after him and keeping him company and trying to work in his room. I managed to carve or work at the computer but I definitely can’t print in there or go spend a few hours in my studio. So there’s been less progress and more kaiju than usual. My final print for #PrinterSolstice2526 will take me a bit longer but hopefully I will get a chance to finish it soon.

#linocut #printmaking #wip #sciart

Been looking after my sick kiddo this week, but when I can, I am making some progress on the 12th & final #PrinterSolstice2526 prompt: multiplication.

I’m making a #linocut portrait Qing Dynasty polymath Wang Zhenyi (1768-1797) known for her books on astronomy, her poetry, meteorology & mathematics. She helped dispel some misconceptions about eclipses, the shape of the Earth & gravity, living at a time when China was isolated from scholarship in the West, 🧵

#printmaking #histsci #womenInSTEM

For the #PrinterSolstice2526 prompt angle, my #linocut of astronomer Elisabeth Koopmann-Hevelius (1647-1693) using a brass sextant to make astronomical observations & some of the new constellations her husband Johannes Hevelius named based on their observations, & she published in Prodromus Astronomiae ('Elements of Astronomy'), in 1690, after he had died. I am highlighting the Lynx constellation, 🧵1/

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#womenInSTEM #histsci #astronomy #mastoArt

For #printerSolstice2526 prompt fraction my #linocut portrait of Rosalyn Sussman Yalow medical physicist & Nobel laureate for the radioimmunoassay method for measuring concentrations of molecules in blood.

Born to an immigrant Jewish family in the Bronx she went to Hunter College, tuition-free, their 1st physics major & graduated with honours by 19. WWII brought the chance for grad school for woman. 🧵

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#womenInSTEM #histsci #physics #mastoart #medicine

First layer down of my portrait of medical physicist Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1921-2011) for the #PrinterSolstice2526 prompt fraction

#linocut #printmaking #sciart #peelReveal #womenInSTEM #histsci #mastoArt

Working on the next print for the #printerSolstice2526 prompt fraction: Rosalyn Sussman Yalow the medical physicist who taught us how to measure substances which were minute fractions of our blood when she, and her medical doctor research partner Solomon Berson, invented the radioimmunoassay. 🧵

#linocut #printmaking #womenInSTEM #histsci #mastoArt

For the #printerSolstice2526 prompt volume: my #linocut of autodidact #mathematician Alicia Boole Stott (1860-1940) with diagrams of cross-sections of 4D polytopes from her publications.

Alicia came to math honestly. Her father Prof George Boole developed Boolean logic, but died when she was 4. Her mother Mary Everest Boole was an autodidact mathematician & innovative math educator, who taught kids math 🧵

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#mastoArt #histsci #sciart #mathArt #mathematics #womenInSTEM

For #printerSolstice2526 prompt 2: my #linocut of trailblazing #microbiologist Esther Lederberg (née Zimmer, 1922-2007) who made discoveries fundamental to modern understanding of bacterial gene regulation, recombination & exchange, but her work was both overshadowed by & sometimes misattributed to her male collaborators. Her contributions include the first successful implementation of replica plating (with her 1st husband, Nobel laureate Joshua Lederberg) … 🧵

Working on my next print for the #PrinterSolstice2526 prompt: two. I have a theme of replication and the place printmaking and science intersect for this one. 👩🏼‍🔬🧪🐡#histsci This microbiologist put her experience working in her father’s print shop in her youth to work, when she (and her more famous husband) developed replica plating, an invaluable tool in their field, still used today. 🧵

#linocut #printmaking #sciart #histsci #microbiology

For #printerSolstice2526 prompt division here is my #linocut portrait of Agnes Pockels (1862-1935), the self-taught scientist who pioneered surface science.

As a woman she did not get the chance to go to university & study physics like her theoretical physicist brother Friedrich, who discovered the Pockels effect. So at 18 she took her "passionate interest for natural science" to her household chores &
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#womenInSTEM #sciart #histsci #printmaking #chemistry #mastoArt

Working on my next print for #PrinterSolstice2526 -another scientist portrait for the prompt division. I decided to interpret it like the ‘dividing line’ or interface & highlight the life & work of autodidact Agnes Pockels (1862-1935). Not allowed to attend university as a woman to pursue her interest in physics, she was expected to keep house & care for her ailing parents, so she became fascinated with what was occurring in her soapy dishwater and 🧵

#womenInSTEM #histsci #linocut #printmaking

For #PrinterSolstice2526 prompt expression: my #linocut of Olga Ladyzhenskaya (1922-2004), a #mathematician who overcame personal tragedy, faced Soviet totalitarianism & the catastrophic political upheaval of the 20th century to make a huge impact on the math, making important contributions to study of partial differential equations (PDEs). She changed the way PDEs are examined & popularized the 🧵
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#womenInSTEM #histsci #artsci #mastoArt #printmaking #fluidDynamics

The next #PrinterSolstice2526 prompt is expression so I am working on a portrait of one of the great 20th century mathematicians, Olga Ladyzhenskaya (1922-2004). She made immense contributions to the study of partial differential equations, particularly with the Navier-Stokes equations and fluid dynamics and she was brave and kind in her personal life, 🧵

#linocut #printmaking #womenInSTEM #OlgaLadyzhenskaya #mathematics #mathematician #fluidDynamics #physics #wip #mastoArt

For the 5th prompt of #PrinterSolstice2526 odd: This is my 8” x 8” lino block print on delicate Japanese washi paper of a seven-spotted lady beetle, or ladybird or lady bug (Coccinella septempunctata) on a pink apple blossom. Like most blossoms it has an odd number of leaves (5) & like some lady beetles, this one obviously has an odd number of spots.

#linocut #printmaking #insect #blossom #ladybug #ladybeetle #ladybird

As the 12yo pointed out, not a scientist this week. https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/4444561272

The 4th prompt for #PrinterSolstice2526 is “subtraction” so I thought of a scientist & talented writer who brought the world’s attention to what was missing. After publishing the sea trilogy in the 40s & 50s, when marine biologist & conservationist Rachel Carson (1907-1964) published Silent Spring in 1962 she captured the world’s attention to the risks to health & environment posed by pesticides & DDT in particular. 🧵

#printmaking #womenInSTEM #histsci #ecology #marineBiology #mastoArt

Working on my next print for the #PrinterSolstice2526 prompt subtraction- a scientist who brought the world’s attention to what was missing where there had been indiscriminate pesticide use, and DDT in particular. Award-winning science writer and marine biologist Rachel Carson (1907-1964) wasn’t the first to try to sound the alarm about unintended consequences, harm to wildlife, 🧵

#linocut #printmaking #wip #portrait #scientist #RachelCarson #ecology #marineBiology #histsci #womenInSTEM #birds

Working on my next print for the #PrinterSolstice2526 prompt subtraction- a scientist who brought the world’s attention to what was missing where there had been indiscriminate pesticide use, and DDT in particular. Award-winning science writer and marine biologist Rachel Carson (1907-1964) wasn’t the first to try to sound the alarm about unintended consequences, harm to wildlife, 🧵

#linocut #printmaking #wip #portrait #scientist #RachelCarson #ecology #marineBiology #histsci #womenInSTEM #birds

Working on my next print for the #PrinterSolstice2526 prompt subtraction- a scientist who brought the world’s attention to what was missing where there had been indiscriminate pesticide use, and DDT in particular. Award-winning science writer and marine biologist Rachel Carson (1907-1964) wasn’t the first to try to sound the alarm about unintended consequences, harm to wildlife, 🧵

#linocut #printmaking #wip #portrait #scientist #RachelCarson #ecology #marineBiology #histsci #womenInSTEM #birds

Working on my next print for the #PrinterSolstice2526 prompt subtraction- a scientist who brought the world’s attention to what was missing where there had been indiscriminate pesticide use, and DDT in particular. Award-winning science writer and marine biologist Rachel Carson (1907-1964) wasn’t the first to try to sound the alarm about unintended consequences, harm to wildlife, 🧵

#linocut #printmaking #wip #portrait #scientist #RachelCarson #ecology #marineBiology #histsci #womenInSTEM #birds

Working on my next print for the #PrinterSolstice2526 prompt subtraction- a scientist who brought the world’s attention to what was missing where there had been indiscriminate pesticide use, and DDT in particular. Award-winning science writer and marine biologist Rachel Carson (1907-1964) wasn’t the first to try to sound the alarm about unintended consequences, harm to wildlife, 🧵

#linocut #printmaking #wip #portrait #scientist #RachelCarson #ecology #marineBiology #histsci #womenInSTEM #birds

The 3rd prompt of #printerSolstice2526 is one so I made a #linocut of the 1st woman to earn a doctorate in science, physicist and professor Laura Maria Caterina Bassi Veratti (née, & known throughout her life as Bassi, 1711-1778). I've shown her surrounded by the sort of state-of-the-art instrumentation she would have used in her lab to investigate electricity: an electrical machine, conductors, an aurora flask, a luminous discharge tube, 🧵 #printmaking #womenInSTEM #histsci #physics #mastoArt

The next #printerSolstice2526 prompt is ‘one’ so I selected a woman who was often the first: first woman science doctorate, first woman physics professor and first woman member of a scientific academy, the Academy of Sciences at the Institute of Bologna: Laura Bassi (1711-1778).

She was quite famous and there are several portraits of her, usually depicted as Minerva, goddess of wisdom. 🧵

#wip #histsci #linocut #printmaking #womenInSTEM #histsci #LauraBassi #physics #electricity #optics

For the #PrinterSolstice2526 prompt ‘even’ -the number of quarks in a meson, a type of particle first observed & published by Bibha Chowdhuri (1913-1991) & her supervisor D.M. Bose in extensive air showers from cosmic rays. My portrait shows her, a mountain on which she gathered her data & a schematic of the cascade of particles we find in cosmic rays.

Born in Kolkata, her family’s Bramohist faith quite unusually 🧵
#womenInSTEM #histsci #particlePhysics #physics #cosmicRays #mastoArt