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Best of: A Complicated Woman, Leona Zacharias
Scientist Leona Zacharias was a rare woman. She graduated from Barnard College in 1927 with a degree in biology, followed by a Ph.D. from Columbia Un…
1 year, 11 months ago
From Our Inbox: Vera Peters - The Doctor Who Helped Spare Women From Radical Mastectomy
Vera Peters began her career studying treatment for Hodgkin lymphoma. She used techniques that had seen positive outcomes on Hodgkin’s to treat breas…
2 years ago
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 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, 1 month 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, 1 month 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, 1 month 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, 1 month 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, 1 month 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, 2 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, 2 months ago