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26/02/21
Retweeted From Jeremy Cuff
Supporting our community – we are very pleased to have helped The Beacon School #Banstead with their IT Appeal – Please join us and give your support @TheBeaconSch @FriendsBeacon https://t.co/1kTraE2YqA https://t.co/GLpoFvoti9
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11/02/21
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@Wyvern_School @whitfieldaspen @SchoolNicholas @TheBeaconSch would you be able to share so that we can reach school leavers/ ex-students / any young people who may want to join as part of their home learning? Classes are free to join. Thank you!!
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11/02/21
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11/02/21
We're celebrating the International Day of Women and Girls in Science! Gladys West is an American mathematician known for her contributions to the mathematics underpinning GPS. Her contributions to GPS were only uncovered when a member of her sorority. #womeninscience https://t.co/lWaekBaXJz
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11/02/21
Jointly with William C. Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura. She is the first Chinese Nobel Laureate in physiology or medicine, and the first female citizen of the People’s Republic of China to receive a Nobel Prize in any category. #WomenInScience https://t.co/j99kevb6BQ
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11/02/21
Her discovery was a significant breakthrough in 20th-century tropical medicine, saving millions of lives around the world. For her work, Tu received the 2011 Lasker Award in clinical medicine and the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. #WomenInScience https://t.co/0Nd03NiSX2
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11/02/21
We're celebrating the International Day of Women and Girls in Science! Tu Youyou is a Chinese pharmaceutical chemist and educator. She discovered artemisinin (also known as qinghaosu) and dihydroartemisinin, drugs used to treat malaria. #WomenInScience https://t.co/K2JHcnTBcr
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11/02/21
She was the first Saudi woman to be accepted at Cambridge University to study the field of biotechnology, and the first woman from any of the Arab States of the Persian Gulf to complete a doctoral degree in the field. #WomenInScience https://t.co/Na8JDtwUnN
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11/02/21
She was ranked by Arabian Business magazine as the 19th most influential Arab in the world and the ninth most influential Arab woman. Sindi has a PhD in biotechnology from Newnham College, Cambridge, which she obtained in 2001; #WomenInScience https://t.co/fZGfhgkB1q
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11/02/21
We're celebrating the International Day of Women and Girls in Science! Dr Hayat Sindi was born in Makkah, Saudi Arabia and is one of the world’s leading biotechnologists. She is the Founder and President of the i2 Institute and co-founder of Diagnostics For All. #womeninscience https://t.co/RAErSGjLKy
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11/02/21
BRCK was formed to realize a vision for enabling communication in low infrastructure environments by developing, innovative technologies. Juliana also co-founded Ushahidi Inc, a non-profit tech company, which specializes in developing free and open-source software #WomenInScience https://t.co/p5WGTEQbmq
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11/02/21
We're celebrating the International Day of Women and Girls in Science! Juliana Rotich is a technologist, strategic advisor, entrepreneur, and keynote speaker. She is co-founder of BRCK Inc, a hardware and services technology company based in Kenya. #WomenInScience https://t.co/6FNGokLb4N
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11/02/21
The Brazilian government in 2006 enacted a law now known as the Maria da Penha Law on Domestic and Family Violence, which increased the severity of punishment for domestic violence against women, whenever it occurred in a domestic or family environment. #WomenInScience https://t.co/krpxSoTStl
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11/02/21
When Maria da Penha was almost killed by her husband, there wasn’t a single police station she could go to in Brazil that specialized in violence against women. The case Maria filed languished in court for two decades, while her husband remained free. #WomenInScience https://t.co/koxfHvUYwY
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