Podcast Episodes

Elizabeth Roboz Einstein: The Determined Genius Behind a Multiple Sclerosis Breakthrough

Elizabeth Roboz Einstein’s life was shaped by the forces of history. She studied bioorganic chemistry at the University of Vienna in the 1920s and th…

6 months ago

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 …

6 months, 2 weeks 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…

6 months, 3 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…

7 months 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…

7 months, 1 week 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…

7 months, 2 weeks 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 …

8 months 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…

8 months, 1 week 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…

8 months, 2 weeks 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…

9 months ago