Der japanische Mediziner & Anthropologe Buntaro Adachi starb heute vor 80 Jahren. Er untersuchte als erster Zusammenhänge von Ohrenschmalzkonsistenz & Achselschweißgeruch – kein Aprilscherz! Was dies mit "Rassenphysiologie" zu tun hat, erklärt:
Julia Gebke, Achselschweiß und Ohrenschmalz: #Medizin und #Anthropologie zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts, #WerkstattGeschichte 87/2023, https://werkstattgeschichte.de/abstracts/nr-87-julia-gebke/
Unser neues Heft #WerkstattGeschichte 91 "körpermaße" ist erschienen!
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Im Thementeil, hg. v. Cornelia Aust, geht es diesmal um das Vermessen & Vergleichen von Körpermerkmalen v.a. im 18./19. Jh. Wie trug dies dazu bei, geschlechtsspezifische & rassistische Differenz herzustellen und so Körpereigenschaften zu essenzialisieren?
Happy birthday to Wilhem Röntgen (1845-1923), the German physicist who discovered x-rays and earned the Nobel Prize for physics in 1901. I’ve depicted him in this thermochromic portrait at work, studying this mysterious, newly discovered, invisible form of light, based on a photograph of him in his lab, using a Crookes tube to produce x-rays. The form of the print mimics the nature of his discovery -
#MastoArt #linocut #sciart #Roentgen #physics #histstm #xrays #printmaking
Heute vor 5 Jahren begann in Deutschland der 1. #Corona-#Lockdown. Wie #Museen damit umgegangen sind, welche Sammlungs- und digitalen Aktivitäten sie z.B. entfaltet haben, hat seinerzeit unsere #Expokritik-Redaktion beobachtet:
Sebastian Kühn, Andreas Ludwig, Pavla Šimková & Lotte Thaa, Corona im #Museum, #WerkstattGeschichte 84/2021, https://werkstattgeschichte.de/alle_ausgaben/monogamie/
Lynn Margulis was born OTD in 1938. At 29, she published her theory that eukaryotes had evolved via endosymbiosis, after having it rejected by at least 15 other journals.
#HPBio #Complexity #HistSTM 
#EvoBio #WomeninSTEM
On the origin of mitosing cell...
It’s #BlackHistoryMonth so it’s a good time to celebrate the extraordinary mathematician and NASA scientist Katherine Johnson (née Coleman; August 26, 1918 – February 24, 2020). One of the first Black women employed as a NASA scientist (and its predecessor NACA), she was known for her mastery of complex manual calculations of orbital mechanics and played a pivotal role in the success of
Good little regional history and history of medicine video about TB sanitaria in LA:
https://www.pbs.org/video/tuberculosis-the-forgotten-plague-o6gnxl/
"Squaring the Anti-Science, Pro-Technology Circle" https://markstoneman.com/2024/11/23/squaring-the-antiscience.html
#USpol #PublicHealth #HistKnow #histSTM
Happy birthday to geologist Charles Lyell (1797-1875) who in his famous ‘Principles of Geology,’ wrote that to avoid some sources of prejudice in understanding #geology would require an Amphibious Being, who could, say, compare processes happening today on land & those happening below water with what we see in the geological record. 1/n
Happy birthday to trailblazing #programmer & #computer scientist, Beatrice “Trixie” Worsley (1921-1972). My #linocut shows Worsley seated at the first computer in Canada, the FERUT (which she named) & a flow diagram of one of her programs.
Trixie Worsley earned one of the first doctorates in computer science anywhere, & was supervised by Douglas Hartree and Alan Turing at Cambridge. 1/n
For the #Spacetober prompt history: my #linocut portrait of Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) & his model of the celestial spheres, or as we would say, the solar system. Copernicus is shown in green with a lily of the valley, the standard Renaissance symbol to indicate a medical doctor, since like most proto-scientists, or ‘philosophers’ (doctors of philosophy) he learned his astronomy incidentally,
#linocut #printmaking #Copernicus #astronomy #histstm #astronomer #sciart #solarSystem #MastoArt
For the #SciArtSeptember prompt epilogue: Margaret Lucas Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1623 – 1673), 17th-century English aristocrat, philosopher, poet, scientist, writer, with her imaginary world from her strange sci-fi novel ‘The Blazing World’ from her epilogue to her ‘Observations upon Experimental Philosophy’. She’s an odd addition to my collection of scientists, … 1/n
When #physicist Lise Meitner (1878-1968) explained #nuclear #fission she understood nothing was “lost” (today’s #SciArtSeptember prompt) despite the missing mass after the reaction. She worked with chemists Hahn & Straßmann in 30s Berlin, investigating elements beyond uranium. They found bombarding nuclei of U-235 with neutrons actually triggered it to fission, or break, into 2 nuclei of roughly half the size & some free neutrons! 1/n
#linocut #printmaking #sciart #histstm #womenInSTEM
For #sciartSeptember prompt royal: Queen Seondeok of Silla (c. 595 ~ 610 - 647), 27th ruler of 1 of the Three Kingdoms of Korea, from 632-647, who brought about a renaissance in culture & science & built the Cheomseongdae moon & star-gazing observatory.
Known for her intelligence, wisdom & benevolence, stories survive of her curiosity & cleverness even as a child. When her father the King was gifted peony seeds 1/n
For the #SciArtSeptember prompt futurist: Alan Turing, OBE, FRS (1912 – 1954), British #mathematician, #cryptanalyst, computer scientist, prophet. Turing foresaw not only that machines might quite likely develop the capacity to think (after all, our brains are only made of matter, & complex systems of neurons, which either fire or not, much like an electronic switch), but that we needed an objective, double-blind test … 1/n
For the #SciArtSeptember prompt electrified: British #engineer, #mathematician, #physicist & #inventor Hertha Ayrton (1854-1923). I’ve shown her in my #linocut with a diagram of the dividers from her 1st of 26 (!) patents, one of her diagrams about the origin & growth of ripple marks & one of her diagrams of an electric arc lamp (a subject on which she literally wrote the textbook). 1/n
#linocut #printmaking #sciart #WomenInSTEM #histstm #suffragette #MastoArt
For the #SciArtSeptember prompt clone: Dolly, the female sheep born 5 July 1996, was a trailblazer. She was the first mammal to be cloned from an adult somatic cell, using the process of nuclear transfer.
Happy birthday to writer, statesman & polymath Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) here in my Fauvism-inspired prompt: This print is a hand-printed, limited edition, reduction block print portrait. While best known for his contributions to German literature, he pursued natural sciences, studying morphology, doing work which presaged evolution, discovering the human intermaxillary bone, 1/n
Happy birthday to mathematician and NASA scientist Katherine Johnson (née Coleman; August 26, 1918 – February 24, 2020). One of the first Black women employed as a NASA scientist (and its predecessor NACA), she was known for her mastery of complex manual calculations of orbital mechanics and played a pivotal role in the success of the US crewed spaceflights from the beginning.1/n
#linocut #printmaking #sciart #womenInStEM #BlackInSTEM #histstm #NASA #MastoArt #mathematician #physics #space
Happy birthday to Antoine Lavoisier (26 August 1743 – 8 May 1794), a progenitor of the study of #chemistry, shown here with his wife Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier (1758 – 1836).
The couple, working closely together, modernized and quantified chemistry and the scientific method, named oxygen and hydrogen, explained the role that oxygen plays in combustion, helped modernize chemical nomenclature and discovered that mass is conserved in chemical reactions. 1/
