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@minouette Adding a reference https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Germain

Elsie MacGill was the first woman in the world to earn a master’s degree in aeronautical engineering (1929). The "Queen of the Hurricanes" was a pioneering Canadian aircraft designer who led production of the Hawker Hurricane fighter planes during #WWII. She was born #OTD in 1905.#WomenInSTEM*Borrowed* via @admirablewomen.bsky.social‬

In the final stage of her career, she focused on noncommutative algebras and hypercomplex numbers and united the representation theory of groups with the theory of modules and ideals.🧵5/5

In 1865, she donated her collections to the British Museum.I’ve shown her based on an early photographic portrait, along with some cyanotype fern leaves, much how she illustrated her own specimen.🧵5/5

@chu she does seem like the villain of this story.

@minouette Do you start out with a reference drawing?

Came across this essay this morning and think it is worth sharing. We can not talk enough about the achievements of all the great women out there!https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.09077Celebrating Women in Mathematicsby Diana T. Stoeva #math #academicChater #womeninStem #womenInHistory

@LeelaTorres The alt text on all images has been updated to include the quotes supplied by each profiled person.

@gutenberg_org https://www.linkedin.com/posts/martin-whitworth_in-honour-of-international-womens-day-project-share-7436479109217652736-M0B0?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&rcm=ACoAAB6brr4BGoHzndQ9zS3yz00BKrProLVulbg