Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science!

Let's celebrate all those women explorers, scientists and innovators who are transforming the world for the better!

#WomenInSTEM #WomenInScience
#WomenInTech #WomenInSciDip #100tífiques

#TuYouyou is a chemist and educator. She discovered artemisinin and dihydroartemisinin, drugs used to treat malaria.

Her discovery was a significant breakthrough in 20th-century tropical medicine, saving millions of lives around the world.

#WomenInSTEM #WomenInScience

@HayatSindi is one of the world’s leading biotechnologists. She is the Founder of @i2institute and co-founder of #DiagnosticsForAll.

She was the 1st woman from any of the Arab States of the Persian Gulf to complete a doctoral degree in the field.

#WomenInSTEM #WomenInScience

@afromusing is a tech entrepreneur. She is co-founder of @brcknet, a hardware and services technology company in Kenya.

Her vision is to enable communication in low infrastructure environments by developing innovative technologies.

#WomenInSTEM #WomenInScience

@DrGladysBWest is known for her contributions to the mathematics underpinning #GPS.

Her contributions were only uncovered when a member of her sorority read a short biography West had submitted for an alumni function.

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@cynthiabreazeal invented Kismet, the first humanoid robot to sense and respond to emotions and feelings. 

Several commercial spin-offs have been derived from her work

#WomenInSTEM #WomenInScience