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American mathematician Dorothy Vaughan was born #OTD in 1910.
She was the first respected Black female manager at NASA, thus creating a long-lasting legacy for diversity in mathematics & science for West Area Computers. As one of the first female coders in the field who knew how to code FORTRAN, she was able to instruct other Black women on the coding language & paved a wave of female programmers to integrate their work into NASA’s systems.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Vaughan
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
Amazing. Just think of all the extra battles she had to fight only because of her gender.