Dale DeBakcsy

Founder of the Women in Science Archive. Author of histories of women in medicine, astronomy, and mathematics! Psych volume coming in July!

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Just four weeks to go until the European launch of my History of Women in Psychology and Neuroscience, and @penswordbooks is offering 20% off pre-orders, so snap em up!
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Tomorrow would have been the 87th birthday of legendary Filipina microbiologist Roseli Ocampo-Friedmann, who in her career collected some 1000 extremophiles from across the globe, including the Dry Valley of Antarctica. #WomenInSTEM

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Happy 75th birthday to Brazilian chemist Vanderlan da Silva Bolzani, whose career has been devoted to exploring the rich array of chemicals to be found in Brazil's diverse population of plant life. She served as president of the Brazilian Chemical Society in 2008. #womeninstem

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Edith Graef McGeer was born 101 years ago today - for decades she was a world leader in the drive to identify neurotransmitters and lock down the molecules involved in their life cycles, and the mechanisms of brain disease. https://t.co/BTLrOpHiVa

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Yesterday would have been the 81st birthday of Ketayun Dinshaw, a leading force at @TataMemorial in developing new multi-specialist protocols and radiation techniques for cancer treatment. She passed away in 2011 at the age of just 67.

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Esther Pohl Lovejoy would have been 155 years old today - she was the 1st American to direct a city's Board of Health, led the AWH for 48 years in providing med services to war torn regions, was a founding figure of the MWIA, AND a candidate for Congress in 1920! #womeninSTEM

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Happy 85th birthday to Wendy Carlos, an electronic music pioneer. Did you see the films Tron, The Shining, or A Clockwork Orange? If so, you've heard her work.

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Sara Josephine Baker was born 151 years ago today - she established the nation's first Bureau of Child Hygiene, which became the model worldwide for community engagement, school nursing, and food inspection. https://t.co/gJMxG7jljh

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For the five of you still here, tomorrow will be the 175th anniversary of astronomer and mathematician Mary Byrd, the first director of @smithcollege 's observatory and an early member of the @amermathsoc! Celebrate responsibly. #WomenInSTEM

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Dorothea Erxleben was born 309 years ago today - she received her medical degree in 1754, after which the German medical system quickly closed ranks to prevent another woman from receiving one for the next century and a half. https://t.co/wRDPYRp0it

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@ProfKateLoder Very sorry to hear this - your posts and retweets were one of the few remaining bright spots on this platform. But I one hundred percent understand.

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We were hoping to celebrate the 72nd birthday of particle physicist and #womeninSTEM advocate Rohini Godbole today, but unfortunately she passed away a few weeks ago, on October 25, so today we are simply taking a moment to appreciate the lifetime of inspiration she provided.

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Neuroscience pioneer Marian Diamond would have been 98 years old today. In the early 1960s her experiments established that rats raised in an enriched environment showed substantial brain growth, establishing the field of neuroplasticity research. https://t.co/tujToWaNOI

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@ProfKateLoder Every time I think to myself, “Are we past the point of needing to share these stories anymore?” the world finds a way of reminding me Yes We Still Do.

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Yesterday would have been the 103rd birthday of Alenush Terian, the first woman in Iran to become a professor of physics, a main driver of the solar physics program there until her retirement in 1979, and an inspiration to generations of young Iranian women interested in science.

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Today would have been the 124th birthday of Bluma Zeigarnik, discoverer of the Zeigarnik Effect and an important researcher in the 1940s on the impact that different brain injuries have on neural functioning. She was also a pioneer figure in psych at Moscow State University.

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Today would have been the 107th birthday of Kamal Ranadive. She received her PhD in 1949 and went on to a career in cancer research for which she was awarded India's 3rd highest civilian honor in 1982. She also co-founded the Indian Women Scientist's Association in 1973.

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Marie Curie was born 157 years ago today - recipient of two Nobel Prizes, co-discoverer of radium and polonium, World War I hero for her work with mobile x-ray units, and inspiration for generations of women scientists, she is truly one of the greats. https://t.co/diK4fyQFK4

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Today would have been the 150th birthday of psychologist Helen Woolley, whose dissertation was one of the first scientific studies to challenge reigning stereotypes about women's intellectual capacities, finding that women actually outperformed men on memory and association tasks

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It's a sad day when a majority of men enthusiastically vote against women's rights on the promise that a narcissist's grift will somehow nebulously benefit them, but the Women in Science Archive is going to continue on, sharing stories and pushing to regain what has been lost.

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Happy 90th birthday to pediatric plastic surgeon Karimpat Mathangi Ramakrishnan who has devoted her life to leading institutions and performing procedures to help children who have been the victims of serious burns and life-altering congenital defects. #WomenInSTEM