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Agnes Pockels and the Kitchen Sink Myth

Distillations: Science + Culture + History by Science History Institute

Mar 19, 202637:28Science & Medicine

This episode is a co-production with Lost Women of Science . Agnes Pockels did pioneering work in surface science. Her invention, the Pockels Trough, became the basis for an instrument that helped Katherine Burr Blodgett...

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Agnes Pockels and the Kitchen Sink Myth is an episode from Distillations: Science + Culture + History by Science History Institute. This episode is a co-production with Lost Women of Science . Agnes Pockels did pioneering work in surface sc...

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Published Mar 19, 2026, 37:28 long, audio available.