GenPORT on the International Women’s Day, 8th March 2017

This 8th of March of 2017, men and women across the world are claiming for recognition of women’s work and contributions to society. GenPORT supports these vindications by remembering 8 of the advancements in science led by women.

• Basis of Nuclear Physics (Marie Skłodowska-Curie) 
• X-ray diffraction image of DNA (Rosalind Franklin) 
• Programation with symbols what is basic for the artificial intelligence (Ada Lovelace) 
• “Induced radioactivity” used for treatment of cancer (Irene Curie)   
• Theorems about general relativity and elementary particle physics are known as “Noether’s Theorem” (Emmy Noether) 
• The contributions to the cyclotron particle accelerator made by Chien-Shiung Wu 
• Technique for visualizing maize chromosomes and how they change during reproduction (Barbara McClintock) 
• In Astronomy, the relation between the variable brightness of stars and their pulsation periods, a mechanism the laid the foundation for estimating cosmic distances (Henrietta Swan Leavitt) 

"At least I have you, to remember me" by the artist Jennifer Monfrans