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I have been nominated for the #WomenTech Global Awards 2025! Share to raise awareness!
I have been nominated for the #WomenTech Global Awards 2025! Share to raise awareness!
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Happy birthday to trailblazing #programmer & #computer scientist, Beatrice “Trixie” Worsley (1921-1972). My #linocut shows Worsley seated at the first computer in Canada, the FERUT (which she named) & a flow diagram of one of her programs.
Trixie Worsley earned one of the first doctorates in computer science anywhere, & was supervised by Douglas Hartree & Alan Turing at Cambridge. Amongst the first computer scientists 🧵
#WomenInSTEM #printmaking #sciart #histsci #mastoArt #physics #compsci
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Happy birthday to Mae Carol Jemison (born October 17, 1956) a physician who became the first Black woman to travel in space when she went into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour for NASA, on September 12, 1992! She also has a B.S. in chemical engineering, served in the Peace Corps, is a dancer and choreographer, formed and runs her own company researching the application of technology to daily life, and even 🧵
#linocut #printmaking#sciArt #astronaut#womenInSTEM#BlackInSTEM #histsci
Happy birthday to trailblazing #programmer & #computer scientist, Beatrice “Trixie” Worsley (1921-1972). My #linocut shows Worsley seated at the first computer in Canada, the FERUT (which she named) & a flow diagram of one of her programs.
Trixie Worsley earned one of the first doctorates in computer science anywhere, & was supervised by Douglas Hartree & Alan Turing at Cambridge. Amongst the first computer scientists 🧵
#WomenInSTEM #printmaking #sciart #histsci #mastoArt #physics #compsci
Happy birthday to Mae Carol Jemison (born October 17, 1956) a physician who became the first Black woman to travel in space when she went into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour for NASA, on September 12, 1992! She also has a B.S. in chemical engineering, served in the Peace Corps, is a dancer and choreographer, formed and runs her own company researching the application of technology to daily life, and even 🧵
#linocut #printmaking#sciArt #astronaut#womenInSTEM#BlackInSTEM #histsci