#womeninstem — Public Fediverse posts

started #wikipedia articles about two US #medical researchers: Helen Louise Trembley (1905-1983) was an #entomologist who raised #mosquito colonies for #malaria research: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Louise_Trembley Miriam Olmstead Lipman (1885-1980) was a #bacteriologist who worked on #penicillin in the 1940s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miriam_Olmstead_Lipman @wikiwomeninred #WomeninSTEM @wikimediadc

Happy Ada Lovelace Day!

"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."

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ada-lovelaces-180-year-old-notes-previewed-the-future-of-computers/

(Archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20260826192534/https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ada-lovelaces-180-year-old-notes-previewed-the-future-of-computers/)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace_Day

#AdaLovelace #computers #STEM #WomenInStem #AdaLovelaceDay

Good Morning! It is Tuesday, October 13. #OTD in 1862, Mary Kingsley was born. She was an English ethnographer, scientific writer, and explorer whose travels throughout West Africa and writing helped shape European perceptions of both African cultures and British colonialism. #Herstory #WomeninSTEM