
ALT A square slide with a dark blue background. A panel on the right consists of two black and white photographs of Kathleen Lonsdale. The upper is of a woman working in a lab, wearing a lab coat. She has her dark hair in an up-do, is wearing glasses, and is looking down on her hands where she is holding a model of a molecule made up of balls and sticks. The lower is a portrait of the same woman, from the hips upwards. She is looking at the camera, wearing a blouse and blazer, and wire-framed glasses. The main part of the slide is taken up by text, above which there is the University of Southampton and WPN logos. The text reads: “This week’s woman in science is… Kathleen Lonsdale / Crystallographer / Proved that the benzene ring is flat / First person to use Fourier spectral methods while solving the structure of hexachlorobenzene / A committed pacifist and prison reform activist”

ALT A square slide with a dark blue background. A panel on the right consists of two black and white photographs of Dossibai Dadabhoy. The upper is from the chest up for a younger brown woman. She is wearing an Edwardian style white shirt with a high collar and a necklace, and her hair is put up in a low pompadour. The lower is a newspaper full body picture of the same woman in light coloured sari. The main part of the slide is taken up by text, above which there is the University of Southampton and WPN logos. The text reads: “This week’s woman in science is… Dossibai Dadabhoy / Obstetrician and Gynaecologist / First person in India to purchase, possess, and distribute radium / Advocated for maternal and child welfare centres and petitioned for reducing infant mortality / First woman to become a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England”

ALT A square slide with a dark blue background. A panel on the right consists of two black and white, sepia tinged, photographs of Margaret Maltby. The upper is an oval portrait of an older white woman from the side. Her hair is light style closed to her head, and she is wearing a wire rimmed glasses, and a pearl necklace. The lower is a portrait of a younger woman, looking slightly to the right with dark hair, put up and styled close to her head. She is wearing a light top in the Edwardian style with a high collar and see through dark cardigan over it. The main part of the slide is taken up by text, above which there is the University of Southampton and WPN logos. The text reads: “This week’s woman in science is… Margaret Maltby / Physicist / Conducted measurements of high electrolytic resistances and the conductivity of very dilute solutions . First woman to earn a PhD in Physics from a German university / Instrumental in helping female academics receive fellowships through the AAUW”

ALT A square slide with a dark blue background. A panel on the right consists of two photos of Gloria Long Anderson. The upper is a photo of an older black woman’s face. She is smiling and has close-cropped curly white hair, and is wearing a golden necklace and fuchsia shirt. The lower is picture from the chest up of the same older black woman, who is wearing a black blauer and turquoise shirt. She is smiling and has red lipstick and hoop earrings. The main part of the slide is taken up by text, above which there is the University of Southampton and WPN logos and a black rectangle with BLACK HISTORY MONTH in red, green, and yellow. The text reads: “This week’s woman in science is… Gloria Long Anderson / Chemist / Pioneer in the field of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy / Conducted important studies of fluorine-19 and solid rocket propellant / Vice Chair of the Corporation of Public Broadcasting and worked to encourage positive portrayals of minorities”

ALT A square slide with a dark blue background. A panel on the right consists of two photos of Claudia Alexander. The upper is black and white portrait of an older Black women with short hair, looking straight at the camera, resting chin on her hands. She is wearing hoop earrings. The lower is a portrait of the same woman in color, smiling, with shoulder length hair and wearing glasses. She is wearing a dark blue boar and white shirt, and a necklace. The main part of the slide is taken up by text, above which there is the University of Southampton and WPN logos and a black rectangle with BLACK HISTORY MONTH in red, green, and yellow. The text reads: “This week’s woman in science is… Claudia Alexander / Geophysicist and Planetary Scientist / Last project manager of NASA’s Galileo mission to Jupiter / NASA’s project scientist in the Rosetta mission / Her work spanned the field of planetary science, plasma physics, magnetospheres, geophysics, and comet science”


















