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Conversation: If I am right, and I know I am: Inge Lehmann, the Woman Who Discovered Earth’s Innermost Secret
In this episode of Lost Women of Science Conversations, host Carol Sutton Lewis speaks with science writer Hanne Strager about her biography of Inge …
11 hours ago
BONUS: Agnes Pockels and the Kitchen Sink Myth
This bonus episode is a co-production with Distillations, a podcast produced by the Science History Institute.
Agnes Pockels did pioneering work in su…
2 weeks ago
Layers of Brilliance: Vanishing Act -- Episode Six
How is a legacy preserved, and how is someone forgotten? Determined to make a final name for himself, Irving Langmuir ventures into science that even…
3 weeks ago
Layers of Brilliance: The Self You Have to Live With - Episode Five
Katharine’s relatives lead the production team to a collection of papers and artifacts stored in a New England storage unit, revealing an inner strug…
4 weeks ago
Layers of Brilliance: The Breakthrough - Episode Four
The 1930s prove to be an exceptional decade for research at The General Electric Company. Katharine Burr Blodgett works closely alongside her boss, I…
1 month, 1 week ago
Layers of Brilliance: The Air She Breathed -- Episode Three
The only woman in a laboratory filled with men, Katharine Burr Blodgett soon becomes indispensable as an assistant to The General Electric Company’s …
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Layers of Brilliance: The 'House of Magic' -- Episode Two
Katharine Burr Blodgett arrives at The General Electric Company’s legendary research laboratory in Schenectady, New York, known as the “House of Magi…
1 month, 4 weeks ago
Layers of Brilliance: The Chemical Genius of Katharine Burr Blodgett - Episode One
In the first of this five-part season we trace Katharine’s early years as she picks up European languages, her early scientific education at a progre…
2 months ago
Layers of Brilliance
Introducing Layers of Brilliance, a six-part season that brings to life the story of a woman whose discoveries in materials science quietly shape our…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
The Lost Women of Science - Our Book for Young Readers
The Lost Women of Science by Melina Gerosa Bellows and Katie Hafner is an exciting book for young readers that brings to life the stories of ten rema…
3 months, 4 weeks ago