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Showing posts with label #histsci. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #histsci. Show all posts
Sunday, October 4, 2026

Nancy Grace Roman, NASA Chief of Astronomy and "Mother of Hubble"

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This post has moved so it can be my 2026 Ada Lovelace Day post. Find it here!
Friday, January 24, 2025

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, chemist, crystallographer, Nobel laureate, mother, arthritis patient, peace and disarmament activist

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Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin , linocut print, 11" x 14", by Ele Willoughby, 2025 The next prompt for PrinterSolstice is cobalt, an ele...
Thursday, February 23, 2023

Kathleen Lonsdale, crystallographer, pacifist and prison reformer

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  Kathleen Lonsdale , 11" x 14" linocut print on Japanese kozo by Ele Willoughby, 2023 I chose Kathleen Lonsdale DBE FRS (née Yard...
Wednesday, July 7, 2021

Lyell's Amphibious Being

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  Lyell's Amphibious Being , linocut, 10" x 8" by Ele Willoughby So here's my latest Imaginary Friend of Science: Lyell...
Wednesday, October 7, 2020

Rosalind Franklin, revealing the the double helix of DNA, the structures in carbon materials and the shapes of viruses

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Roaslind Franklin, linocut, 11" x 14", by Ele Willoughby 2020   Rosalind Elsie Franklin (25 July 1920 – 16 April 1958), the Engli...
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Monday, July 6, 2020

Gladys West, mathematician and geodesist who found the Earth's shape for GPS

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Gladys West, linocut, 11" x 14" by Ele Willoughby, 2020 Geodesy is the study of the shape of the Earth. The Earth isn’t a b...
Thursday, January 16, 2020

Finding our predecessors as women in STEM, Pitfalls and Mistaken Identity of Merit Ptah

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Merit Ptah , Chief Physician , linocut by Ele Willoughby, 11" x 14", 2018 An astronomy professor of mine memorably told ou...
Tuesday, January 9, 2018

Looking back at 2017: science, art and life

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Wunderkammer , interactive multimedia: linocut, collage, wooden box, electronics, sound files, 2017 by Ele Willoughby With the new year,...
Monday, October 26, 2015

Maria Sibylla Merian, Entomologist, Scientific Illustrator, Explorer of Gardens and the New World

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Linocut portrait ' Maria Sibylla Merian ' by Ele Willoughby, 2015 This is a linocut portrait of Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717...
Wednesday, June 17, 2015

The Keeling Curve, Keeling and the atmospheric CO2 trend linocut

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Charles David Keeling and the Keeling Curve , linocut 12" x12", 2015 by Ele Willoughby Sometimes, I take suggestions for prin...
Wednesday, May 20, 2015

SciArt meet-up

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Austin Monthly for October 2014 included my linocut of Florence Nightingale in their write-up of the 'X Marks the Spot' show at...