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Svetlana Mojsov: The Woman Behind GLP-1
In 1983, working with pencil and paper at Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital, Svetlana Mojsov spotted what everyone else had missed: t…
18 hours ago
A pioneer behind x-ray crystallography, Isabella Karle
In high school, Isabella Karle had to take a science class to fulfill a prerequisite. She chose chemistry at random. Karle would go on to become one …
2 months, 1 week ago
Conversations: The Rediscovery of I Who Have Never Known Men
In this episode of Lost Women of Science Conversations, host Elah Feder explores the remarkable resurgence of I Who Have Never Known Men, Jacqueline …
2 months, 4 weeks ago
Best Of: The Woman Who Demonstrated the Greenhouse Effect
In 1856, decades before the term “greenhouse gas” was coined, Eunice Newton Foote demonstrated the greenhouse effect in her home laboratory. She plac…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
La mujer que demostró el efecto invernadero
En 1856, décadas antes de que se acuñara el término “gas de efecto invernadero”, Eunice Newton Foote demostró el efecto invernadero en su laboratorio…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Tilly Edinger: The Paleoneurologist Saved By Her Science
How much can you understand about a brain when that brain is long gone? Tilly Edinger, a Jewish paleontologist, used fossilized skulls to study the e…
4 months ago
Kamala Sohonie: The Chemist who Wanted to Feed a Nation
In 1930s India, Kamala Baghvat dreamed of working alongside the world's greatest scientific minds. But she was repeatedly told “no” when she tried to…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Sharla Boehm: The Programmer Whose Code Underpins the Internet
Sharla Boehm earned a teaching degree from UCLA before channeling her talent for math into computer programming. While working at the Rand Corporatio…
5 months ago
Profesora de química y caza criminales: La extraordinaria vida de Mary Louisa Willard
“La única vez que vi algo que me pareció anormal… había un brazo humano en el refrigerador”, dijo J. Peter Willard sobre su tía, Mary Louisa Willard.…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Best Of: Chemistry Professor and Crime Buster: The Remarkable Life of Mary Louisa Willard
“The only time I ever saw something that I thought was abnormal…there was a human arm in the refrigerator,” said J. Peter Willard about his aunt, Mar…
5 months, 2 weeks ago