Ada Lovelace Day 2017 in a nutshell:
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Have you ever wondered why the information in Wikipedia is extensive for some topics and scarce for others? Did you know that, as of July 2017, approximately only 17.03% of the biographies on Wikipedia relate to notable women?
On Tuesday 10th October 2017, the University's Information Services team are running an edit-a-thon to celebrate Ada Lovelace Day 2017 which is an international celebration day of the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM).
There will be a range of guest speakers in the morning followed by fun technology activities from 11am to 2pm. Full Wikipedia editing training will be given at 2-3pm. Thereafter the afternoon's editathon will focus on improving the quality of articles related to Women in STEM!
Working together with liaison librarians, archivists & academic colleagues we will provide training on how to edit and participate in an open knowledge community. New editors are very welcome and participants will be supported to develop Wikipedia articles; creating new role models for young and old alike.
Come along to learn about how Wikipedia works and contribute a greater understanding of Women in STEM!
The day is split in three parts: talks & technology activities from 11am to 2pm, the Women in STEM Wikipedia editathon in the afternoon from 2pm to 5pm; and a film screening and discussion from 5-6pm approx (to be confirmed). All events are open to staff, student and members of the public. Book to attend one session, two sessions or all three.
Polly Arnold is the Crum Brown Chair of Chemistry and winner of the Rosalind Franklin Award in 2012 for her scientific work and her promotion of women in science. In this session, Polly will introduce the short film, A Chemical Imbalance before taking part in a discussion panel.
Byte-sized Bioinformatics activity.
The other five activities will take place in Room 1206C James Clerk Maxwell Building 12-2pm:
Book here to attend the talks and fun science/tech activities.
Book here to attend the editathon.
5:15pm to 6:15pm – A Chemical Imbalance - film screening and discussion with Professor Polly L Arnold, Crum Brown Chair of Chemistry.
'Breakdown on evening programme (subject to alteration):'
'A Chemical Imbalance' is a short documentary film and book that ask why Edinburgh has such a long history of successful female chemists, and why women are still under-represented in all science fields. Following the film, Anne-Marie Scott will chair a panel discussion of the issues raised in the film; namely the low participation of Women in STEM fields and equality in the workplace.
The confirmed panelists are:
Book here to attend the film screening and discussion panel.
Ewan McAndrew, Wikimedian in Residence at the University of Edinburgh
Helpful updates could be as simple as: Making sure reference links are still appropriate and functional; Adding new inline citations/references; Adding a photo; Adding an infobox; Adding data to more fields in an existing infobox; Creating headings; Adding categories; etc.
All are welcome to add names to the list which is intended to serve as a basis for creating new articles in this important but somewhat neglected sector on the English Wikipedia.
The following is a small sample of topics to work on. Feel free to come up with your own ideas!
[30][31][32][33] [34][35][36]Joyce Wheeler shares her story (video)
There is a list of women working in the field of climate change - any name with a little external link square beside it probably indicates a person who doesn't have a Wikipedia page yet!
Surprisingly, the pages for a number of the women in Rachel Ignotofsky's excellent book Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers who Changed the World are quite sparse. It would be great if some of these could be improved to help those looking for more information after reading:
This table contains notable women chemists from history (mostly found in the Chemistry Was Their Life book if you need a source to get you started!) and from the present day (most of whom are winners of big prizes or Fellows of societies, for whom you can find university websites and news stories about their award/fellowship).
Historic or modern? | Name | Field | Keywords | Notability | Claimed by... |
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M | Carol V. Robinson | Chemistry, Mass Spectrometry | Oxford, Cambridge, proteins | First woman appointed chemistry professor at the University of Oxford. Page exists but very brief on her actual work. | |
H | Draft:Isabel Hadfield | Analytical chemistry | WWI, NPL, Aeronautics Microchemicals | Development of microanalytical measurements | |
H | Draft:Emily Lloyd (chemist) | Analytical chemistry | Aberystwyth, education, University of Birmingham | First woman associate at the Royal Institute of Chemistry | |
H | Draft:Margaret Seward | Chemical reactions | Natural Science, Somerville, nutrition | First Oxford woman student to be entered for honour school of Mathematics, founding lecturer of Royal Holloway College, MBE | |
H | Draft:Cecilie French | Magnetochemistry | UCL, ICI, Bedford College, Queen Mary College | Senior Lecturer at QMC, extensive research into electrochemistry of nonaqueous solvents, synthesised novel boron compounds, Invited to give the Marie Curie Lecture at Penn. State. | |
H | Draft:Mary Corner | Microanalysis | Fabric (cotton & leather) industry research | Head of the Microanalytical Section of the Chemical Research Laboratory | |
H | Martha Annie Whiteley | Research chemistry | Editor of the Dictionary of Applied Chemistry (3rd Edition), mustard gas | President of the Imperial College Women Students' Association, OBE | |
H | Frances Micklethwait | Research chemistry | Mustard gas, Boots, Principal at Swanley Horticultural College | Prolific author of chemistry publications, MBE | |
H | Sibyl Taite Widdows | Chemistry education | Education, Royal Holloway College | Head of the Chemistry Department at London School of Medicine for Women | |
H | Draft:May Badger | Inorganic analysis | Glass, pottery and coal | Head of the Inorganic Chemistry Laboratories at the University of Manchester | |
H | May Sybil Leslie | Industrial chemistry | Nitric acid, explosives, A Textbook of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Leeds | Author of key text on kinetics of the iodination of acetone, Chemist in Charge of Laboratory at His Majesty's Factory in Litherland | |
H | Evelyn Hickmans | Blood chemistry | Phenylketonuria, Horst Bickel, University of Birmingham, University of Toronto | Awarded the John Scott Medal, Head of Children's Diseases Department in the Children's Hospital, Birmingham. | |
H | Clara Millicent Taylor | Organic chemistry | β-eucaine, University of Bristol | One of the first women admitted to the Chemical Society, Head of Science at Cheltenham Ladies' College | |
H | Delia Simpson | Spectroscopy | Cambridge Chemistry Laboratories, energy fuels, fluorescence and infrared. | Director of Studies in Natural Sciences, Newnham | |
H | Draft:Soshelia Ram | Analytical chemistry | Lady Hardinge Medical College for Women, University of Delhi, University of Cambridge | Fellow of the Royal Institute of Chemistry | |
H | Rosemary Murray | Already quite a full page, but needs some citations, etc. | |||
H | Catherine Steele | Biochemistry | Page exists though very short, might be tricky to find information to expand it. | ||
H | Ishbel Campbell | Organometallic compounds | University of Southampton, chemical warfare, St Andrews University | One of the first women to receive a Commonwealth Fellowship, key figure in organometallic compounds of groups V and VI with numerous publications. | |
H | Christina Miller | Analytical chemistry | Diffusion, Carnegie Research Fellowship, tetraphosphorus hexaoxide. | Key studies in phosphorous and luminescence, Keith Prize from the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Director of the Inorganic Laboratory at the University of Edinburgh | |
H | Elizabeth Kempson | Biochemistry | University of Edinburgh, carbohydrates, polysaccharide chemistry, | Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, issue of Carbohydrate Research journal dedicated to her | |
H | Ruth Pirret | Radiochemistry | Ellen Gleditsch, Frederick Soddy, University of Manchester, metal corrosion | First woman graduate in Science from the University of Glasgow, discovery of uranium isotopes | |
H | Draft:Mary Andross | Food chemistry | Nutritional value of food, vitamin C, Society for Chemical Industry | Fellow of the Institute of Food Science Technology, creator of first courses for training dieticians | |
H | Edith Willcock | Food chemistry | Iodoform, radiation, tryptophan (& Frederick Gowland Hopkins) | First studies to show the damaging effects of exposure to radioactive elements, work on vitamins, popular author | |
H | Muriel Wheldale Onslow | Biochemistry | Pigments, plant breeding, genetics, artist, University of Cambridge | Landmark work on pigmentation and genetics, one of the first three women elected to the Biochemical Club, Fellowship from the British Federation of University Women | |
H | Rose Scott-Moncrieff | Biochemistry | Page exists but is quite short considering her achievements | ||
H | Dorothy Jordan Lloyd | Biochemistry | Page exists but no references really, and no infobox | ||
H | Polly Porter | Crystallography | Mentor to Dorothy Hodgkin, National Museum in Washington DC, Oxford Museum & University of Oxford, X-ray crystallography, The Barker Index of Crystals. | Member of Council of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain, authored classic work, published some of earliest work on x-ray crystallography | |
H | Ellie Knaggs | Crystallography | University of Cambridge, Imperial College, Royal Institution, Burroughs Wellcome. | Hertha Ayrton Fellowship, determined crystal structures such as that of cyanuric triazide, elected Visitor to the Royal Institution | |
H | Agnes Pockels | Physical chemistry | Surface science | Page exists but more could be added from Women in Chemistry | |
H | Dorothy Cayley | Mycology | Tulips, | Page exists but rather brief. | |
H | Draft:Caroline Pellew | Genetics | Flower colour, peas, chromosome theory, William Bateson, Genetical Society | Extensive work on the genetics of peas and primula, "right hand man" to Bateson, first Secretary of the Genetical Society | |
H | Muriel Bristol | Mycology | Algae, tea, | Involvement in pioneering statistical work | |
M | Margaret Buckingham | Developmental biology | Muscles, genetics, Pasteur Institute | ForMemRS | |
H | Charlotte Kipling | Biology | Fish, University of Cambridge, computing | Fellow of the Statistical Society | |
H | Patricia H. Clarke | Biochemistry | The Rising Tide, microbiology, UCL, bacteria | FRS | |
H | Bella MacCallum | Botany | Wetlands, fungi, New Zealand (see Ladies in the Laboratory III) | Fellow of the Linnean Society | |
H | Elizabeth Lomax | Botany | Botanical Exchange Club, Torquay, collecting | Herbarium donated to Manchester | |
H | Elsie M. Burrows | Botany | Phycology, Liverpool University, macroalgae | Page exists but needs information on the importance of her work | |
H | Ethel Sargant | Cytology and morphology | Synaptic phase, triple fusion, Royal Society | President of the Botanical Section of the British Association. Page exists but not many details of her work, no infobox. | |
H | Frances Adams Le Sueur | Botany and conservation | Jersey, flowers, source, source. | Page exists but much more could be added from sources and especially from International Women in Science (see Google books) | |
M | Judith Howard | Structural chemistry | X-ray crystallography, five-star department head, | Page exists but very brief and no explanation of her work | |
H | Una Ledingham | Biology | Diabetes, pregnancy, | Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians | |
M | Anne Walton (chemist) | Inorganic chemistry | CChem, FRSC | ||
M | Madeline Jacobs | Science communication | CEO of the Council of Scientific Society Presidents, former CEO of the American Chemical Society | ||
M | Suze Kundu | Nanochemistry | MRSC | ||
M | Ifat Shah | Biochemistry | MRSC | ||
M | Motaza Khater | Analytical chemistry | Founder of the Federation of African Societies of Chemistry, FRSC | ||
M | Eleanor Schofield | Materials science | Conservation manager for the Mary Rose | ||
M | Denise Conner | Analytical chemistry | Plastic pigments, LGBT campaigner | Founder of Out in Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (oSTEM) | |
M | Lorelly Wilson | Science education | CSci, CChem, FRSC, founder of Chemistry with Cabbage | ||
M | Hala Sultan Saif Al-Easa | Organic chemistry | Photochemistry, medicinal plants, Qatar University | Head of Chemistry at Qatar University, President of Qatar Chemical Society | |
M | Mary Garson | Biochemist | Page exists but no infobox | ||
M | Reiko Kuroda | Materials chemistry | L’Oréal–UNESCO prizewinner 2013, stereochemistry, chirality | Page exists but very brief | |
M | Zanariah Binti Abdullah | Organic chemistry | University of Malaya, Queen Mary University, outreach | FRSC | |
M | Sylvia Anie | Healthcare and chemistry | Commonwealth Secretariat, HIV and AIDS | CSci, CChem, FRSC | |
M | Geetha Srinivasan | Physical chemistry | Polymers, petrochemistry, electrochemistry | CSci, CChem, MRSC, L’Oréal-UNESCO award-winner | |
M | Ellen Kooijman | Microanalysis | Head of the Vegacenter for Microanalysis, inspiration behind the LEGO 'Research Institute' | ||
M | Romeela Mohee | Environmental engineering | University of Mauritius, waste reduction, biochar | FRSC | |
M | Helen Neville (chemist) | Product research and development | Proctor & Gamble | FRSC, Vice-President of Research and Development at P&G | |
M | Mah Hussain-Gambles | Pharmacology | Skincare, Sutherland University, University of Leeds, halal | MBE, CChem, MRSC, founder of Saar Pure Skincare | |
M | Katriona Methven | Cosmetovigilance | L’Oréal, regulation, cosmetics | CChem, MRSC, judge of the L’Oréal-UNESCO awards | |
M | Sue Gibson (chemist) | Synthesis | Rosalind Franklin Award, Royal Society, OBE, diversity campaigner | Page exists but brief | |
M | Bernadette Modell | Genetics | Blood, WHO, UCL, University of Cambridge | Wellcome Trust PRF | |
M | Cathy Price | Neuroscience | Language, MRI, UCL | Wellcome Trust PRF | |
M | Heidi Johansen-Berg | Neuroscience | Plasticity, rehabilitation, ageing | Wellcome Trust PRF | |
M | Patricia Simpson | Biology | Insects, evolution | FRS, Wellcome Trust PRF, page exists but stub | |
M | Linda Wicker | Immunogenetics | Diabetes, genetics | Wellcome Trust PRF | |
M | Patricia Jacobs | Genetics | Chromosomes, University of Southampton, abnormalities, Klinefelter syndrome | FRS, Wellcome Trust PRF, page exists but relatively short | |
M | Doreen Cantrell | Immunology | Winner of the 2017 Novartis Medal and Prize, page exists but short | ||
M | Bonnie Wallace (biochemist) | Molecular biophysics | Winner of the 2010 AstraZeneca Award, FRSC, FAAAS, FIOB, FIUPAC | ||
M | Helen Walden | Biochemistry | Winner of the 2015 Colworth Medal, | ||
M | Wendy Bickmore | FRS | |||
M | Yvonne Jones | FRS, page exists but stub | |||
M | Anne Neville (engineer) | FRS, page exists but nothing on her work | |||
M | Josephine Pemberton | FRS, page exists but not much on her work | |||
M | Sarah (Sally) Price | FRS, page exists but nothing on her work | |||
M | Susanne von Caemmerer | FRS, page needs infobox | |||
M | Kate Storey (biologist) | Cell biologist | Neural cells, University of Dundee | Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences | |
M | Susan Michie | Psychologist | Health psychology, King's College | FMedSci, page exists but needs citations and infoxbox | |
M | Giovanna Mallucci | Neuroscientist | Toxicology, neuroscience, University of Cambridge | FMedSci, page exists but is tiny | |
M | Tracy Hussell | Immunologist | FMedSci | ||
M | Jane Apperley | Haematologist | FMedSci | ||
M | Dorothy C Bennett | Geneticist | FMedSci | ||
M | Anne Bertolotti | Neurobiologist | FMedSci, 2018 winner of the GlaxoSmithKline Award | ||
M | Azra Ghani | Epidemiologist | FMedSci | ||
M | Linda Greensmith | Neurologist | FMedSci | ||
M | Alison Holmes | Microbiologist | FMedSci | ||
M | Jill Pell | Epidemiologist | FMedSci | ||
M | Rhian Touyz | Cardiologist | FMedSci, page exists but no infobox | ||
M | Christine J. Watson | Pathologist | FMedSci, might be harder to source though | ||
M | Margaret Whitehead | Public health adviser | DBE, FMedSci, page exists but brief and no infobox | ||
M | Sheila Hollins, Baroness Hollins | Psychiatrist | learning disabilities | Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry of Disability, St George’s, University of London. Page exists, no infobox | |
M | Gill McGauley | Forensic Psychiatrist | Professor of Forensic Psychotherapy and Medical Education at St George’s, University of London (until her death in July 2016). She was also a Consultant Psychiatrist in Forensic Psychotherapy. (no page) | ||
M | Pippa Oakeshott | General Practice | Professor of General Practice at St George’s, University of London. Also a practising GP in Lambeth, London. (no page) | ||
M | Emma Baker (Professor) | Clinical Pharmacology & General Medicine | Professor of Clinical Pharmacology at St George's, University of London and Consultant Physician in Clinical Pharmacology and General Medicine at St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. (no page) |
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