Conversations: The Rediscovery of I Who Have Never Known Men
In this episode of Lost Women of Science Conversations , host Elah Feder explores the remarkable resurgence of I Who Have Never Known Men ,...
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La mujer que demostró el efecto invernadero
En 1856, décadas antes de que se acuñara el término “gas de efecto invernadero”, Eunice Newton Foote demostró el efecto invernadero en su la...
Best Of: 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....
Tilly Edinger: The Paleoneurologist Saved By Her Science
How much can you understand about a brain when that brain is long gone? Tilly Edinger, a Jewish paleontologist, used fossilized skulls to st...
Kamala Sohonie: The Chemist who Wanted to Feed a Nation
In 1930s India, Kamala Baghvat dreamed of working alongside the world's greatest scientific minds. But she was repeatedly told “no” when she...
Sharla Boehm: The Programmer Whose Code Underpins the Internet
Sharla Boehm earned a teaching degree from UCLA before channeling her talent for math into computer programming. While working at the Rand C...
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...
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...