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Calendario De Mujeres Científicas Y Maestras Mil Jardines Ciencia y Tecnología Calendario de Mujeres Científicas y Maestras Hipatia [Jules Maurice Gaspard (1862–1919)] Por Antonio Clemente Colino Pérez [Contacto: [email protected]] CIENCIA Y TECNOLOGÍA Mil Jardines . - Calendario de Mujeres Científicas y Maestras - . 1 – ENERO Marie-Louise Lachapelle (Francia, 1769-1821), jefe de obstetricia en el Hôtel-Dieu de París, el hospital más antiguo de París. Publicó libros sobre la anatomía de la mujer, ginecología y obstetricia. Contraria al uso de fórceps, escribió Pratique des accouchements, y promovió los partos naturales. https://translate.google.es/translate?hl=es&sl=ca&u=https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Louise_Lachapelle&prev=search Jane Haldiman Marcet (Londres, 1769-1858), divulgadora científica que escribió sobre química, enero 1 botánica, religión, economía y gramática. Publicó Conversations on Chemistry, con seudónimo masculino en 1805, pero no fue descubierta su autoría hasta 1837. https://lacienciaseacercaalcole.wordpress.com/2017/01/23/chicas-de-calendario-enero-primera-parte/ https://mujeresconciencia.com/2015/08/19/michael-faraday-y-jane-marcet-la-asimov-del-xix/ Montserrat Soliva Torrentó (Lérida, 1943-2019), doctora en ciencias químicas. https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montserrat_Soliva_Torrent%C3%B3 Florence Lawrence (Canadá, 1886-1938), actriz del cine mudo apasionada por los coches, que inventó el intermitente, pero no lo consideró como propio y pasó el final de sus días sola y arruinada. https://www.motorpasion.com/espaciotoyota/el-dia-que-una-mujer-invento-el-intermitente-y-la-luz-de-freno-para-acabar-despues- arruinada Tewhida Ben Sheikh (Túnez, 1909-2010), primera mujer musulmana en convertirse en medica y llegó a plantear temas como la planificación familiar, la anticoncepción y el aborto en su época, en el norte enero 2 de Africa. https://mujeresconciencia.com/2016/01/02/tewhida-ben-sheikh-medica/ Dana Ulery (Estados Unidos, 1938), informática pionera en aplicaciones computacionales científicas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hi_ITs69lU&feature=emb_err_watch_on_yt Janet Akyüz Mattei (Turquía, 1943–2004), astrónoma turco-estadounidense, fue directora de la Asociación americana de Observadores de Estrella Variable (AAVSO) de 1973 hasta 2004. Lleva su nombre al asteroide 11695. https://mujeresconciencia.com/2016/01/02/janet-akyuz-mattei-astronoma/ Cora Ratto de Sadosky (Argentina, 1912-1981), doctora en matemáticas por la Universidad de Buenos Aires y activista por el bando republicano en la Guerra Civil Española. Madre de Cora Sadosky, otra gran matemática. https://www.lavoz.com.ar/opinion/cora-ratto-de-sadosky-cientifica enero 3 Danica McKellar (Estados Unidos, 1975), matemática doctora Summa Cum Laude en UCLA, autora de libros de matemáticas y novia en la ficción de Kevin Arnold, en “Aquellos Maravillosos Años”. https://mujeresconciencia.com/2015/01/03/danica-mckellar-matematica-y-actriz/ May-Britt Moser (Noruega, 1963), neurocientífica y psicóloga. Premio Nobel, en Fisiología o Medicina de 2014 que comparte con John O’Keefe y Edvar Moser por sus descubrimientos de células que enero 4 constituyen un sistema de posicionamiento en el cerebro. https://elpais.com/sociedad/2018/09/26/actualidad/1537983930_127674.html Nicole Reine Lepaute (Francia, 1723-1788), astrónoma matemática francesa. Predijo la vuelta del cometa Halley, calculó el engranaje de distribución de un eclipse solar y construyó un grupo de catálogos para las estrellas. https://mujeresconciencia.com/2015/01/05/nicole-reine-etable-lepaute-matematica-y-astronoma/ Dame Kathleen Mary Kenyon (Londres, 1906-1978), arqueóloga inglesa, especialmente de la cultura enero 5 del Neolítico en la Creciente fértil y en las excavaciones de Jericó entre 1952 y 1958. https://afanporsaber.com/tag/historia-2#.XnOx0nJKjIU Adriana C. Ocampo Uria (Colombia, 1955), geóloga planetaria directora del programa de ciencia de la NASA. Dirigió al menos siete expediciones de investigación al sitio de Chicxulub. Con sus colegas descubrió la Cadena del Cráter Aorounga en Chad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES-BSlNOwpM Textos: © 2019 Antonio C. Colino Pérez Es una colaboración para www.miljardines.es, una página web sin ánimo de lucro 2 CALENDARIO DE MUJERES CIENTÍFICAS Y MAESTRAS Por Antonio C. Colino Pérez María José Prieto Laffargue (Salamanca, 1945), ingeniera. Trabaja en Geoestrategia como analista de inteligencia tecnológica e ingeniería competitiva. http://forohistorico.coit.es/index.php/personajes/personajes-espanoles/item/prieto-laffargue-maria-jesus Liisi Oterma (Finlandia, 1915–2001), astrónoma. Primera mujer en obtener un doctorado en Física (Ph.D degree) en Finlandia. https://mujeresconciencia.com/2016/01/06/liisi-oterma-astronoma/ enero 6 Marianne Grunberg-Manago (San Petersburgo, 1921-2013) Con Severo Ochoa descubrió el ARN- polimerasa. https://mujeresconciencia.com/2017/10/03/marianne-grunberg-manago-destacada-bioquimica-luz/ La Unidad de Mujeres y Ciencia se crea en enero de 2006 en el Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia. Su objetivo es impulsar la igualdad de oportunidades, la integración y la participación de mujeres en el Enero ámbito científico. http://www.ciencia.gob.es/portal/site/MICINN/menuitem.26172fcf4eb029fa6ec7da6901432ea0/?vgnextoid=25c55ef3677c 4610VgnVCM1000001d04140aRCRD Fanny Bullock Workman (Estados Unidos, 1859-1925), geógrafa y montañistas profesional. Estableció enero 8 varios récords de altitud de mujeres, publicó ocho libros de viajes y defendió los derechos de las mujeres y el sufragio femenino. https://almaleonor.wordpress.com/category/almas-para-el-recuerdo/ Elizabeth Gertrude Knigth Briton (Estados Unidos, 1858-1934), brióloga, botánica y escritora, que enero 9 contribuyó al conocimiento de la briología(estudio de los musgos). https://mujeresconciencia.com/2015/01/09/elizabeth-gertrude-britton-botanica/ Katharine Burr Blodgett (Estados Unidos, 1898-1979), física e inventora pionera en ingeniería y química de superficie, y la primera mujer en ser doctorada en Física por la Universidad de Cambridge en 1926. https://elmundoentrenosotras.com/katharine-burr-blodgett-inventora-los-cristales-antirreflectantes/ enero 10 https://mujeresconciencia.com/2018/11/13/katharine-burr-blodgett-1898-1979/ Mónica López Moyano (Lérida, 1975), meteoróloga. Jefa de Área del Tiempo en RTVE y presidenta de la Asociación de Comunicadores de Meteorología (ACOMET). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGo8sqpyBB4 Doris Mildred Holmes Blake (Estados Unidos, 1892-1978), entomóloga e ilustradora. Experta en enero 11 escarabajos de las hojas. https://mujeresconciencia.com/2019/01/11/doris-holmes-blake-entomologa/ María Elisa Álvarez Obaya (Villaviciosa, Asturias; 1934-2010), farmacéutica. Detectó que el origen de enero 12 las súbitas muertes producidas en la isla en 1963, se debía a una partida de licor adulterada. https://mujeresconciencia.com/2016/08/31/maria-elisa-alvarez-obaya-y-el-caso-del-metilico/ Gertrude Mary Cox (Estados Unidos, 1900-1978), estadística. enero 13 https://mujeresconciencia.com/2014/06/09/gertrude-cox-la-primera-dama-de-la-estadistica/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4hi2AGO80A Carrie Matilda Derick (Canadá, 1862-1941), botánica y genetista. Primera profesora en una enero 14 universidad canadiense, y fundadora del Departamento de Genética de la Universidad McGill. https://mujeresconciencia.com/2017/01/14/carrie-derick-botanica/ Marie Laurent Pasteur (Francia, 1826-1910), esposa y asistente científica del químico y bacteriólogo Louis Pasteur. Ella era su asistente activo en sus experimentos científicos. Marie Pasteur fue enterrada en la cripta del Instituto Pasteur. https://mujeresconciencia.com/2019/01/15/marie-pasteur-asistente-cientifica/ Ella Flagg Young (Estados Unidos, 1845-1918), educadora. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ella_Flagg_Young enero 15 Sofia Kovalévskaya (Moscú, 1850-1891), matemática y escritora rusa. Primera mujer que consiguió una plaza como profesora universitaria en Europa (Suecia, 1881). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZsomndCgxg Sheila Tinney (Irlanda, 1918-2010), física y matemática una de las cuatro primeras mujeres en ser elegidas miembros de la Royal Irish Academy en 1949. https://mujeresconciencia.com/2017/01/15/sheila-tinney-fisica/ Dian Fossey (Estados Unidos, 1932-1985), zoóloga reconocida por su labor científica y conservacionista con los enero 16 gorilas de las montañas Virunga, en Ruanda y la República Democrática del Congo. https://www.nationalgeographic.es/video/tv/te-ensenamos-un-fragmento-del-documental-sobre-la-vida-de-dian-fossey-con-los-gorilas Anita Borg (Estados Unidos, 1949-2003), informática. Creó en 1994 la Celebración Grace Hopper de enero 17 Mujeres en la Informática para apoyar la incorporación de mujeres a la tecnología y en 1997 fundó el Instituto de la Mujer y la Tecnología, que a su muerte se llamó Instituto Anita Borg. Textos: © 2019 Antonio C. Colino Pérez Es una colaboración para www.miljardines.es, una página web sin ánimo de lucro 3 CIENCIA Y TECNOLOGÍA Mil Jardines https://mujeresconciencia.com/2016/01/17/anita-borg-informatica/ Teresa Lago (Portugal, 1947), astrónoma. Investiga en la evolución de las estrellas jóvenes y enero 18 promueve la difusión de la astronomía y la cultura científica al público. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teresa_Lago María Guadalupe Guzmán Tirado (Cuba, 1952), médica. Se ha dedicado al estudio del dengue, enfermedad adquirida a través del mosquito Aedes aegypti, que trasmite también la fiebre amarilla. https://www.ianas.org/images/women/Cub_Bio_esp.pdf enero 19 Susan Salmón (Estados Unidos,
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