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Ele Willoughby@minouette.bsky.social |
Happy birthday to #botanist Isabella Aiona Abbott (1919-2010), renown algae expert, celebrated seaweed cook, devoted teacher & mentor, expert on Hawaiian ethnobotany, 1st Indigenous Hawaiian woman to earn a doctorate in science & 1st woman or person of colour to become a full prof 🐡🧪👩🏻🔬#histsci 🧵1/n
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on Stanford's biology faculty. She literally wrote the textbook on Californian seaweed & recognized as the expert on Hawaiian seaweed, where edible seaweed is called limu. She was known as the "First Lady of Limu". She discovered >200 species of algae. One of her seaweed recipes was printed in 🧵2/
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