Simonne Caillère, French mineralogist geologist, worked on clays. Professor @ Mineralogy Laboratory of French Nat Museum of Natural History. #WWII moved tonnes of mineral collections from museum for safe storage. 1 of 72 #WomenInSTEM proposed 2B added to #EiffelTower. d. #OTD 10 Sep 1999 w.wiki/UK$f

Ma môman à la Wikimania grâce à @politicdormouse.bsky.social et son projet #EiffelWomen

Un grand moment pour moi 🥲

Ethel Moustacchi Egyptian-French geneticist. Research director @ National Centre for Scientific Research in molecular biology & radiobiology. 1988 headed Société française de génétique. Researched mutagenesis & DNA repair. 1/72 women proposed 2B added 2 #EiffelTower b. #OTD 21 Aug 1933 w.wiki/Thww

Irène Joliot-Curie was born #OTD 12 Sep 1897 so sharing a #Wikipedia editing project on "Women who worked with Marie & Irène Curie" - encompasing 45 women scientists, support staff & wider friends & connections. Fancy an edit? Join us here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event:W... @wikimediauk.bsky.social

Sébastienne Guyot French aeronautical engineer. 1921 1 of 1st women 2 graduate @centralesupelec.bsky.social pilot plane owner, 1928 Olympic 800m athlete. Awarded French Resistance #WWII medal for trying 2 rescue POW brother. 1/72 women proposed 2B added 2 #EiffelTower d. #OTD 21 Aug 1941 w.wiki/Tgkh

Marthe Gautier, French doctor & researcher. 1958 discovered link of diseases to chromosome abnormalities (Down Syndrome), credit likely stolen by male colleage. Moved into cardio-pediatrics. 1 of 72 #WomenInSTEM proposed 2B added to #EiffelTower. b. #OTD 10 Sep 1925 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marthe_...

Paulette Libermann French mathematician of differential geometry. Libermann foliation named 4 her. Persecuted by Vichy anti-Jewish laws, 1942 hid 2 yrs. 1944 got agrégation. 1945-7 @ Oxford Uni. 1947-51 research, 1953 PhD. 1958 Prof @ Uni of Rennes d #OTD 10 Jul 2007 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulett...

Odile Croissant French biologist physicist electron microscopy specialist. Researcher @ Pasteur Institute. 1 of 1st scientists to dev techniques 4 insitu detection of viral nucleic acids. Key role in creating 1st physical map of human papillomavirus b #OTD 3 Aug 1923 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odile_C...

Cornélie Lebon de Brambilla 1767–1812 French engineer. Husband Philippe invented form of gas lighting in French Revolutionary era. After his 1804 death, she worked on a thermolamp designed for urban lighting. Awarded Prix des arts chimiques & an annuity for her work en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn%C3...

Colette Kreder engineer, feminist. 1957 grad École Polytechnique Féminine, later returned transform it. Ran research on electronic components @ ministère de l'Air. 1964 @ Lignes télégraphiques & téléphoniques. Creator of Demain la Parité network & Femmes et sciences en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colette...

Alberte Pullman French theoretical & quantum chemist. PhD 1946, investigated electronic properties of carcinogenic aromatic hydrocarbons. 350 publications. 4 nominations 4 Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1/72 #WomenInSTEM proposed 2B added 2 #EiffelTower b. #OTD 26 Aug 1920 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberte...