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Adventures of a Bone Hunter
Annie Montague Alexander was an adventurer, amateur paleontologist, and the founding benefactor of two venerated research collections at UC Berkeley …
2 years, 3 months ago
Emma Unson Rotor: The Filipina Physicist Who Helped Develop a Top Secret Weapon
Emma Unson Rotor took leave from her job as a math teacher in the Philippines to study physics at Johns Hopkins University in 1941. Her plans were di…
2 years, 3 months ago
Flapper of the South Seas: A Young Margaret Mead Travels To The South Seas
In 1925, a young anthropologist named Margaret Mead traveled to Samoa to explore the impact of cultural factors on adolescent development. In her sub…
2 years, 3 months ago
The Devastating Logic of Christine Ladd-Franklin
Christine Ladd-Franklin is best known for her theory of the evolution of color vision, but her research spanned math, symbolic logic, philosophy, bio…
2 years, 4 months ago
Best Of: The Feminist Test We Keep Failing
There's a test that we at Lost Women of Science seem to fail again and again: the Finkbeiner Test. Named for the science writer, Ann Finkbeiner, the …
2 years, 4 months ago
From Our Inbox: Mária Telkes, The Biophysicist Who Harnessed Solar Power
Today we tell the story of Mária Telkes, one of the developers of solar thermal storage systems, who was so dedicated to the world of solar energy th…
2 years, 4 months ago
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…
2 years, 4 months ago
Dr. Rebecca Crumpler, America's First Black Female Public Health Pioneer
Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler, born in 1831, was the first African American female medical doctor in the U.S. and is considered the first Black person to …
2 years, 5 months ago
Flemmie Kittrell and the Preschool Experiment
In the 1960s, a Black home economist at Howard University recruited kids for an experimental preschool program. All were Black and lived in poor neig…
2 years, 5 months ago
A Microbe Hunter in Oregon Fights the 1918 Influenza Pandemic
Harriet Jane Lawrence was one of the first female pathologists in the U.S. In the early 1900s she worked in Portland, Oregon, where she hunted microb…
2 years, 5 months ago