Best Of: Chemistry Professor and Crime Buster: The Remarkable Life of Mary Louisa Willard
“The only time I ever saw something that I thought was abnormal…there was a human arm in the refrigerator,” said J. Peter Willard about his...
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For every Marie Curie or Rosalind Franklin whose story has been told, hundreds of female scientists remain unknown to the public at large. In this series, we illuminate the lives and work of...
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Profesora de química y caza criminales: La extraordinaria vida de Mary Louisa Willard
“La única vez que vi algo que me pareció anormal… había un brazo humano en el refrigerador”, dijo J. Peter Willard sobre su tía, Mary Louisa...
Elizabeth Roboz Einstein: The Determined Genius Behind a Multiple Sclerosis Breakthrough
Elizabeth Roboz Einstein’s life was shaped by the forces of history. She studied bioorganic chemistry at the University of Vienna in the 192...
Conversation: If I Am Right, and I Know I Am: Inge Lehmann, the Woman Who Discovered Earth’s Innermost Secret
In this episode of Lost Women of Science Conversations , host Carol Sutton Lewis speaks with science writer Hanne Strager about her biograph...
BONUS: Agnes Pockels and the Kitchen Sink Myth
This bonus episode is a co-production with Distillations , a podcast produced by the Science History Institute . Agnes Pockels did pioneerin...
Layers of Brilliance: Vanishing Act -- Episode Six
How is a legacy preserved, and how is someone forgotten? Determined to make a final name for himself, Irving Langmuir ventures into science...
Layers of Brilliance: The Self You Have to Live With - Episode Five
Katharine’s relatives lead the production team to a collection of papers and artifacts stored in a New England storage unit, revealing an in...
Layers of Brilliance: The Breakthrough - Episode Four
The 1930s prove to be an exceptional decade for research at The General Electric Company. Katharine Burr Blodgett works closely alongside he...
Layers of Brilliance: The Air She Breathed -- Episode Three
The only woman in a laboratory filled with men, Katharine Burr Blodgett soon becomes indispensable as an assistant to The General Electric C...
Layers of Brilliance: The 'House of Magic' -- Episode Two
Katharine Burr Blodgett arrives at The General Electric Company’s legendary research laboratory in Schenectady, New York, known as the “Hous...
Layers of Brilliance: The Chemical Genius of Katharine Burr Blodgett - Episode One
In the first of this five-part season we trace Katharine’s early years as she picks up European languages, her early scientific education at...
Layers of Brilliance
Introducing Layers of Brilliance , a six-part season that brings to life the story of a woman whose discoveries in materials science quietly...
The Lost Women of Science - Our Book for Young Readers
The Lost Women of Science by Melina Gerosa Bellows and Katie Hafner is an exciting book for young readers that brings to life the stories of...
For Susan
In 2022, Susan Wojcicki was on top of the world—CEO of YouTube, parent to five kids, and running a few miles a day—when she received a shock...
The Mouse Lady
In the 1910s, a relatively unknown cancer researcher named Maud Slye announced the first results of a study with the loftiest ambitions: to...
Lost Women of Science Conversations: Rosalind - The Opera
Composer Peter Hugh White and librettist Clare Heath join host Rosie Millard in front of a London audience to explore why the story of chemi...
Best Of: Finding Dora Richardson: The Forgotten Developer of Tamoxifen, a Lifesaving Breast Cancer Therapy - Episode Two
Although initial clinical trials of tamoxifen as a treatment of breast cancer were positive, Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) did not beli...
Encontrando a Dora Richardson – La desarrolladora olvidada del tamoxifeno, una terapia vital contra el cáncer de mama
Aunque los ensayos clínicos iniciales del tamoxifeno como tratamiento del cáncer de mama fueron positivos, Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI...
Best Of: Finding Dora Richardson, The Forgotten Developer of Tamoxifen, a Lifesaving Breast Cancer Therapy - Episode One
In the early 1960s, Dr. Dora Richardson synthesized a chemical compound that became one of the most important drugs to treat breast cancer:...
Encontrando a Dora Richardson – Episodio 1
A principios de la década de los sesenta, la Dra. Dora Richardson sintetizó un compuesto químico que se convirtió en uno de los medicamentos...
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