Ele Willoughby, PhD on Nostr: Happy birthday to Canadian 🇨🇦 geneticist Irene Ayako Uchida (1917-2013)! In my ...

Happy birthday to Canadian 🇨🇦 geneticist Irene Ayako Uchida (1917-2013)! In my #linocut Uchida is shown surrounded by chromosones, with anomalies (shown with pink arrows) due to radiation exposure, based on one of her research papers. A strand of DNA is hidden in the image (as her watchband).⁠
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Uchida didn’t set out to be a scientist. She was studying English literature at UBC, before she was interned 🧵1/n
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#printmaking #sciart #genetics #cytology #DNA #histstm #WomenInSTEM #chromosomes