Notices by Ele Willoughby, PhD (minouette@spore.social), page 2

Happy birthday to Millie Dresselhaus (née Spiewak; November 11, 1930 – February 20, 2017). She was a professor of physics and electrical engineering at MIT, known as the Queen of Carbon Science.

In this linocut I've shown her in front of a carbon nanotube. She was recognized for her work on graphite, graphite intercalation compounds, fullerenes (a form of carbon known as buckyballs, 🧵1/n

#linocut #printmaking #engineering #physics #carbon #nanotube #buckyball #womenInSTEM #histsci #MastoArt

Happy birthday to #inventor Hedy Lamarr (1914 – 2000) & Hollywood star. Born Hedwig Keisler in Vienna, she gained fame after her risqué & notorious starring role in Machatý's ‘33 film Ecstasy. Mandl, 1st of 6 husbands, objected & tried unsuccessfully to buy all copies of film. Hedy objected to him, a munitions manufacturer, dealing with fascists despite both being of Jewish heritage. She learned secret of her beauty was 🧵1/n

#linocut #printmaking #WomenInSTEM #MastoArt

Happy birthday to Marie Skłodowska-Curie (1867 – 1934, Polish-born, naturalized-French #physicist & #chemist at work in her lab. The contents of her lab glassware appropriately glow-in-the-dark!

Marie Curie was the 1st woman to win a Nobel prize, the only woman to ever win TWO Nobel prizes, and the only person ever to win in two different sciences: #physics & #chemistry! 🧵1/n

#MastoArt
#linocut #printmaking #sciart #WomenInSTEM #histsci

Happy birthday to #mathematician & geodesist Gladys West (née Brown in 1930)! Shown with satellite tracks & 3 satellites important to her career: Seasat, GEOS-3 & a GPS satellite. Her work, using math to precisely model the shape of Earth, laid the groundwork for GPS! Born to sharecropper parents in Virginia, she graduated with a Math BSc in ‘52 then MSc at VSU in ‘55. 🧵1/n
#linocut #printmaking #womenInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #histsci #Spacetober #EarthScience #Math

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.⁠
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Trixie Worsley earned one of the first doctorates in computer science anywhere, & was supervised by Douglas Hartree and Alan Turing at Cambridge. 🧵1/n

#WomenInSTEM #printmaking #sciart #histstm #physics #computerscience #programming #linocut #MastoArt

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 & choreographer, formed & runs her own company researching the application of technology to daily life, 🧵1/n

#MastoArt
#linocut #printmaking #sciArt #astronaut #womenInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #histsci

It’s such a kindness that people are working to salvage art and return it to artists. I hope they are able to recover works from local artists like Denise, who runs APS + G who lost their life’s work as well as out of town artists like me who just lost a few prints they had in any local galleries. It’s really heartwarming to see people are volunteering to help artists like this!

Please have a look at their site https://ashevilleprintstudio.com/ to see what they experienced and 🧵2/n

This was kind of astonishing and rather wonderful: someone working in Asheville to try and help with cleanup post-Helene and salvage any art they find at Riverview Station wrote to me that she found my tiger print and dried it in the sun! It had been at Asheville Print Studio + Gallery which was completely flooded. The damage at this green print studio and gallery and community hub was really devastating and it’s amazing to me that a print on paper could survive.
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#printmaking #Asheville

For #WorldCyanotypeDay I am sharing my portrait of English botanist & photographer Anna Atkins (1799-1871), née Children who published the first book with photographs. She made photograms with algae specimen placed directly on paper treated with photochemicals in Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions in October 1843, 🧵1/2
#portrait #printmaking #womenInSTEM #histsci #cyanotypeProcess #multimedia #botany #botanicalArt

and two further volumes in the next decade. She collaborated with Anne Dixon (1799–1864) to produce further books of cyanotypes on ferns and flowering plants and also published other non-scientific or photographic books.

My portrait combines a #linocut of her and a cyanotype of fern leaves like those she made!

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For #SciArtSeptember prompt orphan, French mathematician & #physicist Joseph Fourier (1768-1830) remembered for his work on Fourier series, Fourier transforms, Fourier’s law of conduction, Fourier analysis & harmonic analysis & their use to solve heat transfer problems & credited with proposing the greenhouse effect as early as 1824.

Being an orphaned commoner he could not seek a army commission in the scientific corps but took a military lectureship in #math. 🧵#printmaking #sciart #histsci

Today is the feast day of Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179), here surrounded by plants & a mineral she touted as medical treatments, her invented alphabet & model of the universe. One of my most popular prints this year!

Her writings preserve not only her own knowledge & theories but the nature of institutional #medicine & folk healing of her day (which she deftly combined). While she might be best remembered today as a composer
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#printmaking #womenInSTEM #histSci #histMed #botany #MastoArt

Happy birthday to mathematician and NASA scientist Katherine Johnson (née Coleman; August 26, 1918 – February 24, 2020). One of the first Black women employed as a NASA scientist (and its predecessor NACA), she was known for her mastery of complex manual calculations of orbital mechanics and played a pivotal role in the success of the US crewed spaceflights from the beginning.🧵1/n
#linocut #printmaking #sciart #womenInStEM #BlackInSTEM #histstm #NASA #MastoArt #mathematician #physics #space

I made this linocut from a different photo of a loon on this lake, taken a few summers ago.

#loon #commonLoon #linocut #printmaking #wildlifeArt #sciart #blackAndWhite #MastoArt

Happy birthday to #mathematician, aeronautical #engineer, philanthropist and Cherokee ‘hidden figure’ of the space race: Mary Golda Ross (1908-2008).⁠
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Great-great-granddaughter of Chief John Ross, who was forced to lead his people on the Trail of Tears, Ross attributed her success in math to the Cherokee tradition of encouraging equal education for boys and girls.
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#printmaking #sciart #womenInSTEM #Indigineer #SpaceRace #planetaryScience #linocut

Happy birthday to trailblazing American computer scientist Frances Elizabeth Allen (1932 – 2020) who made foundational contributions to optimizing compilers, optimizing programs and parallel computing. She was the first woman to become an IBM Fellow, where she worked from 1957 to 2002 and as an emeritus fellow afterwards. She was the first woman to win the Turing Prize.

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#printmaking #womenInSTEM #histSTM #computing #mathematician #sciart #compsci

Happy birthday to #geologist & oceanographic #cartographer Marie Tharp (1920-2006), whose pioneering, thorough & complete ocean floor maps with Bruce Heezen, made using realms of echo sounder data, revealed the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.⁠
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After studying #geology & math, Maurice 'Doc' Ewing at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia hired her to draft 1000s of echo sounder profiles. 🧵1/n

#sciart #printmaking #MadtoArt #womenInSTEM #histsci #linocut

Carving a block for the final subterranean invertebrate for #InsertAnInvert2024. Stygofauna are aquatic animals who live underground. This one is a crustacean!

#linocut #printmaking #sciart #stygofauna #wip #invertebrate #amphipods

Happy birthday to #physicist Harriet Brooks (1876 - 1933) who discovered atomic recoil, Radon & recognized radioactive elements could undergo chains of transmutations into a series of new elements. #nuclear #physics⁠
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She was Rutherford’s 1st grad student at McGill. After publishing her results in 1899 she completed her MSc in 1901 on "Damping of Electrical Oscillations," before embarking on #radioactivity research.⁠
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Happy Canada Day!

This is a digital collage of my linocut of each province and territory with their official flora and fauna, and my home province Ontario with trillium and common loon. I hope you enjoy your long weekend and get out into nature.

#linocut #printmaking #Canada #CanadaDay #trillium #commonLoon #Ontario #wildlifeArt