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Saturday, 9 Mar, 2019

A day late and 100 yen short to honor important people who happen to be female:

• Hypatia the astronomer and mathematician;
• Dae Jang-geum the cook turned Royal Physician in Joseon Dynasty Korea;
• Nicole-Reine Lepaute whose calculations predicted Halleys Comet;
• Ada Lovelace who wrote the first computer program;
• Grace Hopper who created the first compiler;
• Rosalind Franklin who showed the structure of DNA via x-ray diffraction;
• Lise Meitner whose groundbreaking work first described nuclear fission;
• Katsuko Saruhashi the geochemist whose work helped the world understand climate change;
• Margaret Hamilton of MIT and the Apollo project who coined the term Software Engineering;
• Flossie Wong-Staal who identified HIV as the cause of AIDS and genetically mapped the HIV virus;
• Clara Lazen discovered as a fifth grader the molecule tetranitratoxycarbon which has the potential to store energy;
• Coraline Ada Ehmke who authored the «contributor covenant» for open source projects;
• Emma Haruka Iwao who recently broke the world record for computing the digits of Pi;
• Katie Bouman who led the team that created the first image of a black hole;

…and so many more. May many more women dream big dreams. 👭

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See also remember these women by my micro.blog friend Miraz!