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Fatemah Alharbi is a computer scientist who works to detect and analyse weak spots in security networks. She discovered a significant flaw in the Apple macOS, Linux Ubuntu, and Microsoft Windows security systems. adalovelaceday.substack.com/p/dr-fatemah-a…

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Abla Mehio Sibai researches healthy ageing and non-communicable diseases, such as cancer, cardiovascular disease and diabetes, among older adults in underprivileged communities, including refugees. adalovelaceday.substack.com/p/prof-abla-me…

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Rajeshwari Chatterjee was the first female engineer from Karnataka, India. She set up India's first microwave engineering lab, and her work on satellite comms and spacecraft & aircraft antennae is still influential today. adalovelaceday.substack.com/p/prof-rajeshw…

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Tasneem Zehra Husain is a theoretical physicist, science writer, educator and the first Pakistani woman to earn a PhD in string theory. She also works to make theoretical physics more accessible. adalovelaceday.substack.com/p/dr-tasneem-z…

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Asima Chatterjee was a pioneering organic chemist and India's first female scientist to be awarded a doctor of science degree. She helped develop drugs to treat epilepsy and malaria based on biologically active compounds in plants. adalovelaceday.substack.com/p/prof-asima-c…

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Hao Yichun was a pioneer in the fields of stratigraphy, micropaleontology and paleoceanography. She co-authored Paleontology, China’s first textbook on the subject, and expanded our understanding of foraminifera. adalovelaceday.substack.com/p/prof-hao-yic…

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Tsai-Fan Yu's pioneering research helped make gout a curable disease, linked gout to hypertension and diabetes, and established one of the first systematised lab tests for diagnosing rheumatoid arthritis. adalovelaceday.substack.com/p/prof-tsai-fa…

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Lina Stern, a biochemist and neurophysiologist, was one of the first researchers to identify what is now known as the blood-brain barrier, and conducted pioneering research on the central nervous system. adalovelaceday.substack.com/p/prof-lina-st…

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Lin Lanying was an engineer and physicist who developed semiconductor and aerospace materials, particularly monocrystalline silicon, a key semiconductor used as a component in virtually all modern electronic equipment. adalovelaceday.substack.com/p/dr-lin-lanyi…

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Michiyo Tsujimura was an agricultural scientist, biochemist and the first woman to earn a doctoral degree in agriculture in Japan. She discovered that green tea contains vitamin C. adalovelaceday.substack.com/p/prof-michiyo…

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Helen Quinn co-developed a theory to explain why the symmetry between matter and antimatter breaks in weak interactions, which drive nuclear decay, but not in strong interactions, which hold matter together. adalovelaceday.substack.com/p/prof-helen-q…

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Susan Krumdieck is a mechanical and energy systems engineer. She co-founded the transition engineering movement, which develops innovative methods and technologies to help reduce reliance on fossil fuels. adalovelaceday.substack.com/p/prof-susan-k…

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Leone Norwood Farrell invented the Toronto Method for large-scale vaccine production, making childhood immunisation programmes more affordable and facilitating the mass production of Jonas Salk's polio vaccine in the 1950s. adalovelaceday.substack.com/p/dr-leone-nor…

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One of NASA’s first African-American employees, Annie Easley helped develop software for the Centaur rocket stage, enabling several later landmark spaceflights, and helped develop early battery powered vehicles. adalovelaceday.substack.com/p/annie-easley…

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Idelisa Bonnelly de Calventi was a marine biologist who pioneered the study of marine sciences in the Dominican Republic. She worked to protect ocean biodiversity and created one of the first sanctuaries for humpback whales. adalovelaceday.substack.com/p/prof-idelisa…

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Valeria Correa Vaz de Paiva is a Brazilian mathematician, logician, computer scientist and computational linguist who introduced new ways to model linear logic in advanced programming languages. adalovelaceday.substack.com/p/dr-valeria-d…

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Isabella Aiona Abbott was the first Native Hawaiian woman to receive a PhD in science and a leading expert on Pacific marine algae. She discovered over 200 seaweed species and her work is still influential today. adalovelaceday.substack.com/p/prof-isabell…

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Frances Wagner was one of the first women to carry out field research for the Geological Survey of Canada and became a distinguished expert in the use of micropaleontology to study marine geology. adalovelaceday.substack.com/p/dr-frances-w…

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Nadine Caron is the first Canadian/First Nations (Ojibway) female medicine graduate from BCU and first to become a general endocrine surgeon. She advocates for improved public health for First Nations communities. adalovelaceday.substack.com/p/prof-nadine-…

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Jewel Plummer Cobb discovered how skin cells produce melanin and how they become cancerous. She also discovered that methotrexate was an effective treatment for some skin and lung cancers and childhood leukaemia. adalovelaceday.substack.com/p/prof-jewel-p…