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Supporting girls & women in STEM with Ada Lovelace Day on 8 Oct 2024. Newsletter: https://t.co/7ZyEv0PtGe Bluesky: https://t.co/0PznhGe4f1

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This year’s Ada Lovelace Day was an absolute corker! A quick round-up of key links plus some wonderful photos of the night by the brilliant @paul_clarke are over on our newsletter: . 🧵.
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Asima Chatterjee was a pioneering organic chemist and India's first female scientist to be awarded a doctor of science degree. She helped develop drugs to treat epilepsy and malaria based on biologically active compounds in medicinal plants.
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Hao Yichun was a pioneer in the fields of stratigraphy, micropaleontology and paleoceanography. She co-authored Paleontology, China’s first textbook on the subject, and deepened understanding of foraminifera, single-celled organisms found in seawater.
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Tsai-Fan Yu was a renowned Chinese-American medical doctor whose pioneering research helped make gout a curable disease, linked gout to hypertension and diabetes, and established one of the first systematised lab tests for diagnosing rheumatoid arthritis.
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Lina Stern, a biochemist and neurophysiologist, was one of the first researchers to identify what is now known as the blood-brain barrier, and conducted pioneering research on the central nervous system.
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Lin Lanying was an engineer and physicist who developed semiconductor and aerospace materials, particularly monocrystalline silicon, a key semiconductor used as a component in virtually all modern electronic equipment.
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Michiyo Tsujimura was an agricultural scientist, biochemist and the first woman to earn a doctoral degree in agriculture in Japan. She discovered that green tea contains vitamin C and is credited with helping to popularise the drink internationally.
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Helen Quinn, a particle physicist and educator, co-developed a theory to explain why the symmetry between matter and antimatter breaks in weak interactions, which drive nuclear decay, but not in strong interactions, which hold matter together.
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Susan Krumdieck is a mechanical and energy systems engineer. She co-founded the transition engineering movement, which develops innovative methods and technologies to help the world adapt to rapidly reduced fossil fuel production and consumption.
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Leone Norwood Farrell invented the Toronto Method for large-scale vaccine production, making childhood immunisation programmes more affordable and facilitating the mass production of Jonas Salk's polio vaccine in the 1950s.
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As one of NASA’s first African-American employees, Annie Easley helped develop software for the Centaur rocket stage, which enabled several landmark spaceflights in the later 20th century. She also helped develop early battery powered vehicles.
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Idelisa Bonnelly de Calventi was a marine biologist who pioneered the study of marine sciences in the Dominican Republic. She dedicated her career to protecting ocean biodiversity and created one of the first sanctuaries for humpback whales.
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Valeria Correa Vaz de Paiva is a Brazilian mathematician, logician, computer scientist and computational linguist who introduced new ways to model linear logic in advanced programming languages.
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Isabella Aiona Abbott was the first Native Hawaiian woman to receive a PhD in science and a leading expert on Pacific marine algae. She discovered over 200 seaweed species and her work is still influential today.
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Frances Wagner was one of the first women to carry out field research for the Geological Survey of Canada and became a distinguished expert in the use of micropaleontology to study marine geology.
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Nadine Caron is the first Canadian female general endocrine surgeon and graduate of medicine from British Columbia University who is of First Nations descent (Ojibway). She advocates for improved public health for First Nations communities.
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Jewel Plummer Cobb discovered how skin cells produce melanin and how they become cancerous. She also discovered that methotrexate was an effective treatment for some skin and lung cancers and childhood leukaemia.
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Marie Maynard Daly co-discovered the link between high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and the clogged arteries that can cause heart disease and strokes. She also investigated the damage that cigarettes have on the heart and lung circulatory systems.
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V Narry Kim is a biochemist and microbiologist who has developed new technology to reduce cancer cell proliferation by eliminating specific microRNAs. Her work may lead to new gene therapies.
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Fumiko Yonezawa was a theoretical physicist who studied amorphous materials, semiconductors and liquid metals. She used computational models to show how, at an atomic level, liquids become crystals or amorphous solids.
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Janaki Ammal crossbred sugarcane species to create a hybrid with a higher sucrose yield that could flourish in India's tropical climate. She was instrumental in saving the botanically diverse Silent Valley in India.
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