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Born in 1896, biochemist Gerty Theresa Cori became the 1st woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (and the 3rd to win a Nobel Prize).
Cori faced gender discrimination & was marginalized for years. But she never gave up.
With her husband Carl, she discovered how glycogen is broken down & eventually stored as an energy source (aka the “Cori cycle”). They also identified the Cori ester. http://beckerexhibits.wustl.edu/women/cori.htm #HistoryRemix #science #history
Happy 77th birthday to Patricia Lee Smith, influential part of punk rock worldwide, born on this day in 1946 in Chicago, Illinois.
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Scientists of Anning’s day could not believe that a poor young woman could posses her knowledge & talent. She has been described as 'the greatest fossilist the world ever knew' yet many people are still unaware of her incredible contributions.
The majority of Anning’s discoveries ended up in museums & collections without credit. https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/anning.html #science #history
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She determined the structures of insulin, penicillin & vitamin B12, leading to tremendous advances in medicine.
Hodgkin was awarded a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964. She also advocated for world peace, campaigning against both the Vietnam War & nuclear weapons. https://www.nobelprize.org/womenwhochangedscience/stories/dorothy-hodgkin #HistoryRemix #science #history
The Nobel Prize | Women who changed science | Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
“Captured for life by chemistry and by crystals,” as she described it, Dorothy Hodgkin turned a childhood interest in crystals into the ground-breaking use of X-ray crystallography to “see” the molecules of penicillin, vitamin B12 and insulin.www.nobelprize.org
Tragically, Ball passed away months after her discovery due to complications from a lab accident.
What happened next? Arthur Dean, head of her dept, continued the work publishing Ball’s process as “Dean’s method.”
Fortunately, a colleague spoke up & the name was changed to “Ball’s method.” #HistoryRemix #science #history
https://tenochtitlan.thomaskole.nl/ #history #maps #3d #mexico
a portrait of Tenochtitlan
a 3D reconstruction of the capital of the Aztec Empiretenochtitlan.thomaskole.nl
@davidrumseymaps adds historical map text search: https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/view/search?annotSearch=annotSearch&q=lyndon #maps #history #cnn #ml
