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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…
2 years 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…
2 years 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…
2 years 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…
2 years 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,…
2 years, 1 month 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…
2 years, 1 month 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…
2 years, 1 month 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…
2 years, 2 months ago
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…
2 years, 2 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, 2 months ago