@minouette@spore.social
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Apr 01, 2026
Ele Willoughby, PhD
@minouette@spore.social
Artist, printmaker and marine geophysicist. Settler in Tkaronto (she/her)
spore.social
Happy birthday to French mathematician, physicist and philosopher Marie-Sophie Germain (1776 – 1831), known as Sophie. She taught herself mathematics using books in her father’s library and by corresponding with leading mathematicians of her day, including Lagrange, Legendre and Gauss, initially using the pseudonym Monsieur LeBlanc. Her work on elasticity theory won her the grand prize from the Paris Academy of Sciences. 🧵
#linocut #printmaking #sciart #mathematician #womenInSTEM #histsci
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@minouette@spore.social
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Dec 11, 2025
Ele Willoughby, PhD
@minouette@spore.social
Artist, printmaker and marine geophysicist. Settler in Tkaronto (she/her)
spore.social
Day 11 #ArtAdventCalendar: Happy birthday to trailblazing US #astronomer Annie Jump Cannon (1863 – 1941), here with her stellar classification system which sorted stars based on spectral types, revealing their temperature from hot blue to cool red stars: O,B,A, F, G, K & M. Named the Harvard Classification after the university, her tremendous contribution was less visible. 🧵
#printmaking #womenInSTEM #histsci #DisabledInSTEM #linocut #mastoArt
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