Elon Musk, owner of social media platform X, is considering removing the service formerly called Twitter from Europe in response to a new internet platform regulation in the region, news site Insider reported on Wednesday.
The #SciArtSeptember prompt adornment made me think of fashion, “mauve madness” & William Henry Perkin (1838-1907)’s serendipitous discovery of the 1st synthetic organic dye: mauveine.
Perkin entered the Royal College of Chemistry in London in 1853 at 15, studying with August Wilhelm von Hofmann who hired him as his assistant in 1855 & had him working on a series of experiments to try & synthesize quinine, used to treat malaria. 🧵1/ #MastoArt #linocut #printmaking #sciArt #chemistry #histsci
Happy birthday to Antoine Lavoisier (26 August 1743 – 8 May 1794), a progenitor of the study of #chemistry, shown here with his wife Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier (1758 – 1836). #linocut #sciart #histstm #tarot #MastoArt The couple, working closely together, modernized & quantified chemistry & the scientific method, recognized and named oxygen & hydrogen, explained the role that oxygen plays in combustion, helped modernize chemical nomenclature & discovered that mass is conserved in 🧵 1/n
For #BlackHistoryMonth I want to celebrate extraordinary Black women scientists like #biochemist Marie Maynard Daly (1921-2003), 1st Black woman to earn a PhD in #chemistry in the US! She made important research contributions to our understanding of the biochemisty of the cell nucleus & cardiovascular issues & the chemistry of histones & protein synthesis. She established that "no bases other than adenine, guanine, thymine, and cytosine were present in appreciable amounts" in DNA - #sciart #art
