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Lost Women of Science Conversations: The Exceptions
Dr. Nancy Hopkins, a molecular biologist who made major discoveries in cancer genetics, became an unlikely activist in her early fifties. She had alw…
1 year, 6 months ago
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, Ma…
1 year, 6 months ago
Lost Women of Science Conversations: Wild By Design
When Laura J. Martin decided to write a history of ecological restoration, she didn’t think she would have to go back further than the 1980s to uncov…
1 year, 7 months ago
Revisiting The Pathologist in the Basement: Episode 4 Breakfast in the Snow
In our final episode, we explore Dorothy Andersen’s legacy — what she left behind and how her work has lived on since her death. Describing her mento…
1 year, 7 months ago
Revisiting the Pathologist in the Basement: Episode 3 The Case of the Missing Portrait
The missing portrait of Dr. Andersen takes us on a journey into the perils of memorialization and who gets to be remembered. Dr. John Scott Baird, Do…
1 year, 7 months ago
Revisiting the Pathologist in the Basement: Episode 2 The Matilda Effect
Our associate producer, Sophie McNulty, rummages through boxes in a Connecticut basement, looking for clues to Dorothy Andersen’s life story. Pediatr…
1 year, 8 months ago
Revisiting the Pathologist in the Basement
A few important things have happened in the three years since we first aired The Pathologist in the Basement, the story of Dr. Dorothy Andersen, the …
1 year, 8 months ago
Lost Women of Science Conversations: Mathematics for Ladies
When poet Jessy Randall started researching the lives of female scientists she became angry. And we certainly can relate here at Lost Women of Scienc…
1 year, 8 months ago
Elizabeth Bates and the Search for the Roots of Human Language
“We were each put on earth to torment the other,” says cognitive scientist Steven Pinker of Elizabeth Bates, a psychologist who challenged the prevai…
1 year, 8 months ago
The Theoretical Physicist Who Worked With J. Robert Oppenheimer at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age
Melba Phillips, who grew up on a farm in Indiana at the turn of the 20th century, was one of J. Robert Oppenheimer’s first graduate students at the U…
1 year, 8 months ago