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The Story of the Real Lilli Hornig, the Only Female Scientist Named in the Film Oppenheimer
Lilli Hornig was only 23 years old when she arrived at Los Alamos to contribute to the development of an atomic bomb that would end World War II. A t…
2 years, 4 months ago
No Place for a Woman in Mathematics? The Woman Who Ended up Supervising The Computations that Proved an Atomic Bomb Would Work
Naomi Livesay, born in 1916 in the northern reaches of Montana, aspired to one career: mathematics. She earned a bachelor’s degree in math, but when …
2 years, 5 months ago
Blood, Sweat, and Fears: The Story of Floy Agnes Lee, the Young Woman Who Analyzed the Blood of Manhattan Project Scientists
Floy Agnes Lee was a hematologist at Los Alamos. Recruited to the Manhattan Project while still a student at University of New Mexico, she collected…
2 years, 5 months ago
One of Many Lost Women of the Manhattan Project: Leona Woods Marshall Libby
Leona Woods Marshall Libby was the only woman hired onto Enrico Fermi's team at the Metallurgical Laboratory at the University of Chicago. She was ju…
2 years, 5 months ago
Women of the Manhattan Project: Trailer
During World War II, thousands of scientists and engineers worked on the Manhattan project, the top secret push to develop an atomic bomb that would …
2 years, 6 months ago
Alessandra Giliani: 14th-century Italian anatomist
Welcome to the first in our From Our Inbox series, in which we give listeners a taste of the mail we get from folks wanting to bring a particular for…
2 years, 6 months ago
The Highest of All Ceilings: Astronomer Cecilia Payne
Cecilia Payne was in her early 20s when she figured out what the stars are made of. Both she and her groundbreaking findings were ahead of their time…
2 years, 6 months ago
What's in a Street Name? Everything.
In 1992, a Dutch doctor named Josh von Soer Clemm von Hohenberg wrote a letter to Henning Voscherau, the mayor of Hamburg, Germany, requesting that a…
2 years, 7 months ago
The Doctor and the Fix: Chapter 5
Marie Nyswander died in 1986. She’d achieved almost everything she set out to, but she wanted more: even better medications than methadone, fewer reg…
2 years, 8 months ago
Reminder about next episode and an update
A reminder that our next episode is scheduled to come out next Thursday!
In the meantime, we’ve hit a slight snag—Katie has COVID—but she’s resting u…
2 years, 8 months ago