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Annie S. D. Maunder Russel

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Annie S. D. Maunder Russel

was an Irish-British astronomer, who recorded the first evidence of the movement of sunspot emergence from the poles toward the equator over the Sun's 11-year cycle. She was one of the leading astronomers of her time, but because of her gender, her contribution was often underplayed at the time. In 1916 she was elected to the Royal Astronomical Society, 21 years after being refused membership because of her gender.

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Antonia Caeana de Paiva Pereira Maury

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Antonia Caeana de Paiva Pereira Maury

American astronomer who was the 1st to detect & calculate the orbit of a spectroscopic binary; her system of stellar classification was adopted by the International Astronomical Union as being more detailed than the system developed by Williamina Fleming & Annie Jump Cannon.

Born: 1866

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Madison Maxey

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Madison Maxey

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Marissa Ann Mayer

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Marissa Ann Mayer

63 patents related to technology. On July 16, 2012, Mayer was appointed president and CEO of Yahoo!, effective the following day. She was also a member of the company's board of directors.[43][44] At the time of her appointment, Yahoo's numbers had been falling behind those of Google for over a year and the company had been through several top management changes.

Born: 1975

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Maria Goeppert Mayer

⚛️ Theoretical Physicist

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Maria Goeppert Mayer

⚛️ Theoretical Physicist

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Born: 1906

Country: Germany

Education: University of Gottingen PhD Teoretical Physics 1930

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Araba Maze

🔍 Radical Street Librarian

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Araba Maze

🔍 Radical Street Librarian

Country: USA

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Claire McCardell

🎨 Women's Fashion Designer

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Claire McCardell

🎨 Women's Fashion Designer

was known as the girl who defied Dior

Education: Hood College

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June or Jean, please check McCarroll

⚛️ Physician 💡 Inventor

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June or Jean, please check McCarroll

⚛️ Physician 💡 Inventor

took it upon herself to paint the 1st centerline on Indio Boulevard

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Pamela McCauley-Bush

⚛️ Industrial Engineering

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Pamela McCauley-Bush

⚛️ Industrial Engineering

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Born: 1963

Country: USA

Education: University of Oklahoma BS 1988, MS 1990, Phd 1993, all in Industrial Engineering

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Dorothy Lavinia McClendon

🔬 Microbiology

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Dorothy Lavinia McClendon

🔬 Microbiology

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Born: 1924

Country: USA

Education: Tennessee Agricultural & Industrial University (now Tennessee State University) BS Biology 1948

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Barbara McClintock

🔍 Botany 🔍 Cytogenetics

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Barbara McClintock

🔍 Botany 🔍 Cytogenetics

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Born: 1902

Country: USA

Education: Cornell University BS 1923, MS 1925, PhD 1927 all in Botany (women were precluded from majoring in cytogenetics at the time of her attendance)

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Denise McCluggage

✍️ Sports Journalist 🔍 race car driver

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Denise McCluggage

✍️ Sports Journalist 🔍 race car driver

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Born: 1927

Country: USA

Education: Mills College BA Philosophy 1947

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Katherine McCormick

🔍 Philanthropy

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Katherine McCormick

🔍 Philanthropy

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Anita Newcombe McGee

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Anita Newcombe McGee

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Peggy McIntosh

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Peggy McIntosh

American feminist, anti-racism activist, scholar, speaker, and senior research scientist of the Wellesley Centers for Women. She is the founder of the National SEED Project on Inclusive Curriculum (Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity).[1] She and Emily Style co-directed SEED for its first twenty-five years. She has written on curricular revision, feelings of fraudulence, hierarchies in education and society, and professional development of teachers. his analysis, and its shorter version, "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack" (1989),[2] pioneered putting the dimension of privilege into discussions of power, gender, race, class and sexuality in the United States.

Born: 1934

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Margaret Mead

🔍 Cultural Anthropology

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Margaret Mead

🔍 Cultural Anthropology

Mead was a communicator of anthropology in modern American and Western culture and was often controversial as an academic.[3] Her reports detailing the attitudes towards sex in South Pacific and Southeast Asian traditional cultures influenced the 1960s sexual revolution.[4] She was a proponent of broadening sexual conventions within the context of Western cultural traditions.

Born: 1901

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Linda Celinda Meade-Tollin

🔬 Biochemistry 🔬 Cancer Researcher

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Linda Celinda Meade-Tollin

🔬 Biochemistry 🔬 Cancer Researcher

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Born: 1944

Country: USA

Education: West Virginia State College BS Chemistry, Mathematics & Biology 1964; City University of New York, Hunter College MA Biochemistry 1969; City University of New York Ph.D. Biochemistry 1972

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Lise Meitner

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Lise Meitner

) Austrian/Swedish physicist; 1 of those responsible for the discovery of the element protactinium & nuclear fission; 1917, discovered radioactive isotope protactinium-231; 1st to describe & coin the term "nuclear fission" in a scientific paper. We continue the story of Jewish physicist Lise Meitner, the first person to understand that the atom had been split. This is the second in a two-part series featuring new letters from and to Lise Meitner translated by author Marissa Moss, author of The Woman who Split the Atom: The Life of Lise Meitner (2022). The letters show the fraught and complex relationship between Otto Hahn and Meitner and the role that antisemitism played in the decision to give the Nobel Prize in 1944 to Hahn and not Meitner. After the discovery of nuclear fission, Meitner grappled with its implication: the advent of nuclear weapons and who would get credit for the discovery of nuclear fission. This would lead to a breakdown of Meitner and Hahn’s decades-long scientific collaboration. Meitner, who had fled Germany because of the Nazis, was horrified at the thought of an atomic bomb. She also faulted Hahn for not speaking out about Nazi atrocities, and questioned his character, though she remained loyal to him to the end. It was their working relationship that defined her life.

Born: 1878

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Marlyn Wescoff Meltzer

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Marlyn Wescoff Meltzer

Women programmers of ENIAC. In 1945, she was selected to become one of the 6 original programmers of Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer. Pioneers The day before it debuted, the world’s first general-purpose computer failed to work. It was up to seven women to stay late and make the beast, dubbed ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) operational. They were:

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Sara Menker

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Sara Menker

Country: Ethiopia

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Miriam Friedman Menkin

🔍 Genetics 🔍 Embryology

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Miriam Friedman Menkin

🔍 Genetics 🔍 Embryology

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Born: 1901

Country: USA

Education: Cornell University BS Histology & Comparative Anatomy 1922; Columbia University MS Genetics 1923; Simmons University BA Secretarial Studies

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Juanita L. Merchant

🔭 Gastroenterology 🔍 Specializes in gastric 🔍 colon pre-cancer

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Juanita L. Merchant

🔭 Gastroenterology 🔍 Specializes in gastric 🔍 colon pre-cancer

Country: USA

Education: Stanford University BS Biology 1977; Yale University Svhool of Medicine MD &PhD 1984

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Maria Sibylla Merian

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Maria Sibylla Merian

was a German entomologist, naturalist and scientific illustrator. She was one of the earliest European naturalists to document observations about insects directly. Merian was a descendant of the Frankfurt branch of the Swiss Merian family. ; illustrated the metamorphosis of the butterfly; illustrated the relationship between insects & plants unknown to Europeans while travelling to Surinam in 1699 & in 1705 published Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensum

Born: 1647

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Betsy Metcalf

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Betsy Metcalf

was an American labor leader in New England during the 1840s; an advocate of shorter workdays for factory operatives and mechanics, she campaigned to make ten hours of labor per day the maximum in Massachusetts. invented a method to braid straw to make straw bonnets, no patent, showed women in Providence RI how to make hats and started a cottage industry.

Born: 1786

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Ynes Enriquetta Julietta Mexia

🔍 Botany 🔍 conservation

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Ynes Enriquetta Julietta Mexia

🔍 Botany 🔍 conservation

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Born: 1870

Country: USA

Education: attended Botany classes at UC Berkeley begining in 1921

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Patricia Michaels

🔍 Textiles - Native American Fashion

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Patricia Michaels

🔍 Textiles - Native American Fashion

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Karin Miga

⚛️ Biomolecular Engineering

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Karin Miga

⚛️ Biomolecular Engineering

assistant professor of biomolecular engineering at UC Santa Cruz, named by TIME magazine as one of year's most influencial people.

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Barbara A. Mikulski

🏛️ Politician

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Barbara A. Mikulski

🏛️ Politician

1971 after delivering a highly publicized address on the "ethnic movement" in America.[4] She was elected to the House of Representatives in 1976, and in 1986, she became the first woman elected to the United States Senate from Maryland.[5]

Born: 1936

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Sylvia Miller

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Sylvia Miller

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Hinda Schreiber Miller

💡 Inventor 🏛️ Politician

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Hinda Schreiber Miller

💡 Inventor 🏛️ Politician

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Born: 1950

Country: Canada

Education: Parsons School of Design BFA Environmental Design 1972; NYU Tisch School Theater Design MFA 1976

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Alice Josephine Marie Milion Milliat

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Alice Josephine Marie Milion Milliat

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Yeshimabeit "Yeshi" Milner

🔍 Technologist ✊ Data Activist

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Yeshimabeit "Yeshi" Milner

🔍 Technologist ✊ Data Activist

Country: USA

Education: Brown University BA Africana Studies 2012

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Brenda Milner

🔍 Neuroscientist

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Brenda Milner

🔍 Neuroscientist

Born: 1918

Country: UK

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Eliza Gaynor Minden

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Eliza Gaynor Minden

Born: 1959

Country: USA

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Patsy Takemoto Mink

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Patsy Takemoto Mink

will appear on US coin quarter https://thehill.com/homenews/4119326-these-five-american-women-will-appear-on-new-quarters-in-2024/?utm_term=64c5297497bb13fc6d0d4e262f74a278&utm_campaign=TheWeekInPatriarchy&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=weekinpatriarchy_email

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Sara minker

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Sara minker

co-founder & CEO of Gro Intelligence a data analysis firm that takes data from a variety of sources & builds agricultural commodity forecasts that food suppliers, financial firms & governements can use to navigate climate risk, understand supply models, predict demand for crops & monitor growing conditions for crops around the world

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