Susan La Flesche Picotte
Susan La Flesche was the first Native American to earn a medical degree. She proceeded to become the physician for the Omaha Nation, traveli...
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Babes of Science
Women have contributed to the sciences for centuries, but not always in a way that fulfills the stereotypical role of a scientist or in a way that gets recognition. Babes of Science is about...
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Listen to Babes of Science, a Science & Medicine podcast by babesofscience. Stream 24 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
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20 of 24 episodesLady Ranelagh
Every early chemist has heard of Boyle's law -- the equation that relates a gas's pressure to its volume. But even if you have some awarenes...
Marguerite Perey
Marguerite Perey identified a new element called Francium while she was working in the Curie laboratory. So why don't we know her name? MUSI...
Henrietta Lacks
Henrietta Lacks developed an aggressive form of cervical cancer, and died at the age of 31. The cells from the tumor on her cervix, however,...
Bertha Pappenheim/Anna O.
Bertha Pappenheim was spending each night by her sick father's bed when she began hallucinating. Josef Breuer would diagnose her with hyster...
Irène Joliot-Curie
Irène Joliot-Curie found that radioactivity wasn't just something to be found in the earth's elements -- scientists could make other metals...
Margaret Cavendish
Margaret Cavendish used her writing to debate philosophy with some of the great thinkers of the scientific revolution. And she was the only...
Rita Levi-Montalcini
Rita Levi-Montalcini worked with homemade tools in her bedroom laboratory when she and her family were forced into hiding during World War I...
Maria Sibylla Merian
Maria Sibylla Merian painted caterpillars with their corresponding cocoons and butterflies on a host plant. While most of Maria's peers in t...
Babes Alive: Brittany Bushnell
Imagine you're a PhD student, just getting started. And you realize you can't hear anything out of one ear, and THEN you learn that's becaus...
Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston collected folklore and stories from communities throughout the rural south. Her stories were some of the first that repre...
Margaret Sanger
Margaret Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in the U.S. one hundred years ago this week. The clinic only lasted ten days, but Marg...
Ada Lovelace
Ada Lovelace defined modern computing and wrote the first computer program...for an imaginary machine. Because the computer as a usable, phy...
Ep11: Barbara McClintock
Barbara McClintock suggested that genes jump from chromosome to chromosome, so people called her crazy. Decades later, they figured out that...
Ep10: Mary Anning
Mary Anning found the some of the first evidence of giant dinosaur-like lizards. And actual dinosaurs. And also vampires. Music in this epis...
Ep9: Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
After being denied entry to medical school and just barely squeezing into a PhD program, Rosalyn Sussman Yalow developed a tool that could m...
Ep8: Nettie Stevens
Once upon a time, everything from timing to the temperature at conception could get blamed for the sex of a baby. Even the baby's mom. Netti...
Ep7: Alice Ball
IN THIS EPISODE Poncie talks about Alice Ball, who found one of the first treatments for leprosy. After Alice Ball's method was used, some o...
Ep6: Florence Nightingale
IN THIS EPISODE Poncie talks about Florence Nightingale, who changed nursing from a field where ladies would hunt for husbands to one where...
Ep5: Maria Mitchell
Babes of Science is a podcast about women who made an impact in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics. Learn more at babesofscien...
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