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Ele Willoughby, PhD (minouette@spore.social)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 01:57:15 JST Ele Willoughby, PhD

This #BlackHistoryMonth let’s celebrate trailblazing American #biochemist Marie Maynard Daly (1921-2003), 1st Black woman to earn a PhD in #chemistry in the US! She made important research contributions to the biochemisty of the cell nucleus & cardiovascular issues & our knowledge of the chemistry of histones & protein synthesis. She published original research establishing that “no bases other than adenine, 🧵
#womenInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #histsci #printmaking #linocut #HeartDisease #sciArt
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1. My linocut portrait of Marie Maynard Daly in purples (she’s a young m, smiling Black woman, wearing earrings, a necklace and a dress, looking at the viewer over her shoulder). Above her to the right is an anatomical heart with a blowout diagram in a circle of a clogged artery and the cholesterol molecule all in red. Next to her on the left in blue are the molecules of the bases which make up DNA and a diagram of a human cell.
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