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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 findingada.com London, England Joined October 2008

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Firdausi Qadri is a Bangladeshi immunologist and infectious disease researcher. She developed an affordable oral cholera vaccine and the typhoid conjugate vaccine, and led mass vaccinations to prevent cholera outbreaks. adalovelaceday.substack.com/p/dr-firdausi-…

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Hailan Hu studies the neurological mechanisms behind emotional & social experiences, & how they change the brain’s neural circuitry. She discovered how ketamine acts to reduce depression in rats, making way for new approaches to treating mental illness. adalovelaceday.substack.com/p/prof-hailan-…

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Celebrate Ada Lovelace Day, 14 Oct, this year by organising your own ALD event to support women in STEM. You can do anything – a talk, a networking event, a panel discussion, yarn bombing, cream teas, silent disco, Wikipedia edit-a-thon. The options are endless!

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Rukhmabai Raut was the second woman to become a practising physician in India. She studied at the Royal Free Hospital & London School of Medicine for Women, before returning to India to become the Chief Medical Officer at the Women's Hospital in Surat. adalovelaceday.substack.com/p/dr-rukhmabai…

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There’s no ALD Live in London this year, but you can still organise your own ALD event in your town or city. Over the years we’ve had all sorts of events, from cream teas to Wikipedia edit-a-thons to maker days, so it’s time to get imaginative. Save the date: Tues 14 Oct 25!

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Mary Eliza Mahoney was the first African American woman to become a licensed nurse and to work professionally as a nurse in the USA. She was one of only three to successfully graduate from her class of 42 women and the only African American to do so. adalovelaceday.substack.com/p/mary-eliza-m…

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Maryna Viazovska, Марина Вязовська, is a mathematician known for her work in sphere packing, which explores how to pack spheres in the densest way possible in a given number of dimensions. In 2022, she became only the second woman to win the Fields Medal. adalovelaceday.substack.com/p/professor-ma…

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Katalin Karikó co-discovered that modifications to mRNA could prevent an immune reaction, allowing it to be used to order cells to make any protein, & developed an mRNA purification technique. Her work laid the foundations for the mRNA COVID-19 vaccine. adalovelaceday.substack.com/p/dr-katalin-k…

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Ada Lovelace Day is on Tuesday 14 October this year, which might seem like a long way away, but if you’re organising an indie event, it’s practically right round the corner. So why not start thinking about what you're doing to do for ALD and get organising!

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Claudia J Alexander was a Canadian-American geophysicist and planetary scientist who worked for the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory where she oversaw Galileo's plunge into Jupiter. Read and subscribe: adalovelaceday.substack.com/p/dr-claudia-j…

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Bertha Yeawas “Birdie” Parker Pallan was the first female Native American archaeologist. She discovered, excavated & documented the pueblo site of Scorpion Hill. At Gypsum Cave, she discovered the then earliest record of human habitation in North America. adalovelaceday.substack.com/p/bertha-parke…

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Flossie Wong-Staal, née Wong Yee Ching, 黄以静, was a virologist and molecular biologist who was the first to molecularly clone HIV. She also created a map of its genes, which was crucial to proving that HIV causes AIDS. Read more and subscribe: adalovelaceday.substack.com/p/prof-flossie…

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Edith Clarke was an electrical engineer & the first female professor of electrical engineering in the USA. She developed a method to calculate the maximum power that a power transmission line could carry and remain stable. Read more & subscribe: adalovelaceday.substack.com/p/prof-edith-c…

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Inge Lehmann, a Danish seismologist & geophysicist, discovered evidence of the Earth's solid inner core & molten outer core. Her work was confirmed by computer models decades later, but she did all her data collection & calculations by hand. More: adalovelaceday.substack.com/p/inge-lehmann…

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Dr Elizabeth Rona was a nuclear chemist and expert on isotope separation & polonium preparation. She confirmed the existence of thorium 231, paving the way for mass spectrography, and co-developed the use of radioactive elements as tracers. Read more: adalovelaceday.substack.com/p/dr-elizabeth…

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Maria Vasilievna Pavlova, Мария Павлова, was a palaeontologist who discovered several hoofed mammals & proved Hipparion was not the direct ancestor of modern horses, but an offshoot, changing our understanding of the ancestry of horses in Eurasia. adalovelaceday.substack.com/p/professor-ma…

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Rita Levi-Montalcini was a neurobiologist who discovered nerve growth factor in collaboration with her colleague, Stanley Cohen. They were both awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1986 & she was only the 4th woman to receive it. adalovelaceday.substack.com/p/prof-rita-le…