Today is Ada Lovelace Day, which celebrates the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM). The woman today is named after, Ada Lovelace, is considered the world’s first computer programmer. #AdaLovelaceDay
Happy #AdaLovelaceDay! ACM is proud to be celebrating women in #STEM, whose contributions have fueled the progress in various aspects of the field and shaped how we see and interact with the world and each other.
BREAKING NEWS:
The 2021 #NobelPrize in Chemistry has been awarded to Benjamin List and David W.C. MacMillan “for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis.”
BREAKING NEWS:
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2021 #NobelPrize in Physics to Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi “for groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of complex physical systems.”
Teachers are at the ♥️ of education recovery, with a vital role in rebuilding more resilient education systems.
On #WorldTeachersDay, join us in celebrating their commitment! 👏 👏 👏
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BREAKING NEWS:
The 2021 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian “for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch.”
With new breakthroughs happening in the developer world every day, we’re happy to share educational info one byte at a time with the developer community → https://t.co/sFEpFxhxoW
💻 Happy #InternationalProgrammersDay!
Irène Joliot-Curie, born on this day, was a battlefield radiologist, activist, politician, and daughter of two of the most famous scientists in the world: Marie and Pierre Curie.
Discover her journey to her own Nobel Prize: https://t.co/3eLj8pf3q9
Today, on the 20th anniversary, we honor the victims and heroes of September 11th.
Astronaut Frank Culbertson was aboard the ISS in 2001 and witnessed the attacks from space.
His reflections on that tragic day:
https://t.co/vaIvf6eakf
His letters:
https://t.co/ubMP61ZENo
Medicine laureate Tu Youyou discovered artemisinin – an anti-malarial that has saved the lives of millions of people worldwide. Tu not only found a way to extract artemisinin from a traditional Chinese medicine, she also tested the new drug on herself to speed up development.
Join our free webinar Aug. 25th to hear from @CSforALLorg @KaporCenter on the importance of bringing equitable CS to US high schools. We'll discuss the role equitable access to CS education plays in creating pathways to economic opportunity Register: https://t.co/20yi1k8n43
Erwin Schrödinger, born #OnThisDay in 1887, was an Austrian theoretical physicist who contributed to the wave theory of matter and to other fundamentals of quantum mechanics. He shared the 1933 Nobel Prize for Physics with British physicist P.A.M. Dirac.