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Best Of: The Highest of All Ceilings, Astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was in her early 20s when she figured out what the stars are made of. Both she and her groundbreaking findings were ahead of…
1 year, 9 months ago
The Victorian Woman Who Chased Eclipses
The year is 1897 and Annie Maunder, an amateur astronomer, is boarding a steamship bound for India from England. Her goal: to photograph a total sola…
1 year, 9 months ago
Lost Women of Science Conversations: Mischievous Creatures
In this episode of Lost Women of Science Conversations, Michelle Nijhuis talks to historian Catherine McNeur about how she rediscovered the lives and…
1 year, 9 months ago
The Cognitive Scientist Who Unraveled the Mysteries of Language
While working at the Salk Institute in California, Ursula Bellugi discovered that sign language was made up of specific building blocks that were ass…
1 year, 9 months ago
Best Of: Meet the Physicist who Spoke Out Against the Bomb She Helped Create
Season 6 Episode 7
Katharine “Kay” Way was a nuclear physicist who worked at multiple Manhattan Project sites. She was an expert in radioactive decay. But after the ato…
1 year, 10 months ago
How Lilian Bland Built Herself A Plane
“Hoots and derision, which did not worry me at all,” Lilian Bland wrote, describing her visit to an airshow in Blackpool, England in 1909. She’d been…
1 year, 10 months ago
Lost Women of Science Conversations: The Black Angels
In the first of a new series we’re calling Lost Women of Science Conversations—and a fitting choice for Black History Month—we talk to Maria Smilios,…
1 year, 10 months ago
The Industrial Designer Behind the N95 Mask
Sara Little Turnbull was a force in the world of material science and industrial design. It’s safe to say most people will have used something that s…
1 year, 11 months ago
The Universe in Radio Vision
The Australian physicist Ruby Payne-Scott helped lay the groundwork for a whole new kind of astronomy: radio astronomy. By scanning the skies for rad…
1 year, 11 months ago
From Our Inbox: Forgotten Electrical Engineer’s Work Paved the Way for Radar Technology
Sallie Pero Mead was first hired at AT&T in 1915 as a “computer”—a human calculator—shortly after completing her master’s degree in mathematics at Co…
1 year, 11 months ago