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Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>Happy birthday to chemist William Henry Perkin (1838-1907)! This <a href="https://spore.social/tags/lino" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lino</span></a> block print ‘William Henry Perkin Discovers Mauve’ is about how the British chemist &amp; entrepreneur made the serendipitous discovery of the 1st synthetic organic dye: mauveine. ⁠<br>⁠<br>Perkins entered the Royal College of Chemistry in London in 1853 when he was only 15, studying with August Wilhelm von Hofmann. 🧵1/n<br>⁠<br><a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linocut</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>printmaking</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sciart</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/chemistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chemistry</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastoArt</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/dye" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dye</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histsci</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/chemist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chemist</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/FashionHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FashionHistory</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/purple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>purple</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/mauve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mauve</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/colour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>colour</span></a></p>
Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>For <a href="https://spore.social/tags/BlackHistoryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackHistoryMonth</span></a> pharmaceutical <a href="https://spore.social/tags/chemist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chemist</span></a> Alice Ball (1892-1916) who developed 1st effective treatment for <a href="https://spore.social/tags/leprosy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>leprosy</span></a>. Though her life was cut tragically short, her research saved 1000s from exile &amp; painful, ineffective lifelong treatment for leprosy, &amp; she was a trailblazer for women &amp; Black scientists.⁠<br>⁠<br>Ball studied <a href="https://spore.social/tags/chemistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chemistry</span></a> at UW earning a BSc &amp; 2nd degree in pharmacy 2 years later. 🧵1/n</p><p><a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>printmaking</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sciart</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/BlackInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackInSTEM</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/womenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>womenInSTEM</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histsci</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastoArt</span></a></p>
Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>Happy birthday to Russian <a href="https://spore.social/tags/chemist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chemist</span></a> Dmitri Mendeleev (1834 – 1907) who published the periodic table. Born in Siberia, the youngest child of a large family, his father was a school principal until he lost his sight &amp; job. His mother then restarted her family’s abandoned glass factory to support them. His father died &amp; factory was destroyed by fire. Despite economic hardship, 13 year old Mendeleev attended the Gynasium in Tobolsk. 🧵</p><p> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linocut</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>printmaking</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sciart</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Mendeleev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mendeleev</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/chemist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chemist</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastoArt</span></a></p>
Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>brought the surviving kids to England when she was 5. She graduated in <a href="https://spore.social/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>physics</span></a> with the highest score ever for a London University, with a BSc from Bedford College of Women in ‘22, &amp; MSc from UCL in ‘24. Nobel laureate W.H. Bragg offered her a spot on his team at the Royal Institution, where she worked until she married in ‘27 &amp; followed her husband research <a href="https://spore.social/tags/chemist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chemist</span></a> Thomas Lonsdale to Leeds for a job. She continued to correspond with Bragg &amp; calculated structure factors while focusing 🧵3/b</p>
Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>Working on my next print for <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printersolstice2425" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>printersolstice2425</span></a> prompt cobalt. All animals need cobalt for metabolism, even if it’s an ultratrace element in us. We need it as cobalamin aka vitamin B12. So I’m working on another scientist portrait: x-ray crystallographer &amp; chemist Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910-1994) who won the Nobel for determining the structure of bio molecules vitamin B12, penicillin &amp; insulin. </p><p><a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linocut</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>printmaking</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/wip" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wip</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sciart</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histsci</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/chemistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chemistry</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/chemist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chemist</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/crystallography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>crystallography</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/womenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>womenInSTEM</span></a></p>
Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>For the <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printerSolstice2425" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>printerSolstice2425</span></a> prompt oxygen: my <a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linocut</span></a> of Claudine Picardet (1735-1820) <a href="https://spore.social/tags/chemist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chemist</span></a>, <a href="https://spore.social/tags/mineralogist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mineralogist</span></a>, meteorologist &amp; perhaps most importantly, translator of latest science from Swedish, English, German, Italian &amp; possibly Latin to French at the height of the chemical revolution.</p><p>She married barrister &amp; member of the Académie royale des sciences, arts, et belles-lettres de Dijon, Claude Picardet in 1755, her entry into 🧵</p><p><a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastoArt</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sciart</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>printmaking</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histsci</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/womenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>womenInSTEM</span></a></p>
PJ Coffey<p><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/chemist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chemist</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/scienceHumor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scienceHumor</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/filking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>filking</span></a> </p><p>I'm humming this one...</p>
Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>Happy birthday to Marie Skłodowska-Curie (1867 – 1934, Polish-born, naturalized-French <a href="https://spore.social/tags/physicist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>physicist</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://spore.social/tags/chemist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chemist</span></a> at work in her lab. The contents of her lab glassware appropriately glow-in-the-dark! </p><p>Marie Curie was the 1st woman to win a Nobel prize, the only woman to ever win TWO Nobel prizes, and the only person ever to win in two different sciences: <a href="https://spore.social/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>physics</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://spore.social/tags/chemistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chemistry</span></a>! 🧵1/n</p><p><a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastoArt</span></a> <br><a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linocut</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>printmaking</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sciart</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/WomenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomenInSTEM</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histsci</span></a></p>
#SCIENCEMATTERS<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Introduction</span></a> post:</p><p>Hi, I'm ottawatts... everywhere. Start with my professional tags <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/chemist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chemist</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/pharmaceuticals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pharmaceuticals</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/clinicalresearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>clinicalresearch</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/regulatoryaffairs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>regulatoryaffairs</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/cancersurvivor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cancersurvivor</span></a> </p><p>Pastimes include <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>music</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/theater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>theater</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/film" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>film</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/dogs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dogs</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/wine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wine</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/food" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>food</span></a> </p><p>Super interested in forming a more perfect union by electing <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Democrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Democrats</span></a> </p><p>Mom with two teenagers and very proud of <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GenZ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GenZ</span></a> with their focus on politics and <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/mentalhealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mentalhealth</span></a> </p><p>Proud <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/atheist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>atheist</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/scicomm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scicomm</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomeninStem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomeninStem</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SciEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SciEd</span></a> supporter</p>
Carolski<p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/introductions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>introductions</span></a> Hi <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fediverse</span></a>! I’m Carol, prof at a CC in Oregon and a <a href="https://mas.to/tags/chemist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chemist</span></a>. I enjoy learning/talking about <a href="https://mas.to/tags/chemistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chemistry</span></a> and <a href="https://mas.to/tags/ChemEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChemEd</span></a>, progressive Ed, <a href="https://mas.to/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>climate</span></a> and environment. Also <a href="https://mas.to/tags/CommunityCollege" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CommunityCollege</span></a>, and bike/ped/public transport. More a dabbler than a diver 🐥</p>
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