Lost Women of Science
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Lost Women of Science
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 a diverse array of groundbreaking scientists who, because of time, place and gender, have gone largely unreco...
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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: tamoxifen....
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 más impor...
Opening Doors to Computer Science
In high school, Carla Brodley was almost shut out of computer science when boys took over all the computers. But she rediscovered her love for the fie...
Frances Glessner Lee: The Mother of Forensic Science
Frances Glessner Lee discovered her true calling later in life. An heiress without formal schooling, she was in her fifties when she transformed her f...
The Mothers of Gynecology
In this episode, Katie Hafner joins Alexis Pedrick and Mariel Carr to bring you The Mothers of Gynecology, part of Innate: How Science Invented the My...
Best Of: Dr. Sarah Loguen Fraser, an Ex-Slave’s Daughter, Becomes a Celebrated Doctor
Born in 1850, Sarah Loguen found her calling as a child, when she helped her parents and Harriet Tubman bandage the leg of an injured person escaping...
La Dra. Sarah Loguen Fraser, hija de un ex esclavo, se convierte en una destacada médica
Nacida en 1850, Sarah Loguen encontró su vocación cuando era niña, cuando ayudó a sus padres y a Harriet Tubman a vendar la pierna de una persona heri...
Mujeres perdidas del Proyecto Manhattan: Carolyn Beatrice Parker
Carolyn Beatrice Parker provenía de una familia de médicos y académicos y trabajó durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial como física en el Proyecto Dayton,...
Best Of: Lost Women of the Manhattan Project - Carolyn Beatrice Parker
Carolyn Beatrice Parker came from a family of doctors and academics and worked during World War II as a physicist on the Dayton Project, a critical pa...
Emma Unson Rotor: la física filipina que desarrolló un arma ultrasecreta
Emma Unson Rotor se tomó un permiso de su trabajo como profesora de matemáticas en Filipinas para estudiar física en la Universidad Johns Hopkins en 1...
Best Of: Emma Unson Rotor: The Filipina Physicist Who Developed a Top Secret Weapon
Emma Unson Rotor took leave from her job as a math teacher in the Philippines to study physics at Johns Hopkins University in 1941. Her plans were dis...
Best Of: The Victorian Woman Who Chased Eclipses
The year is 1897 and Annie Maunder, an amateur astronomer, is boarding a steamship bound for India from England. Her goal: to photograph a total solar...
La mujer victoriana que perseguía los eclipses
Corre el año 1897 y Annie Maunder, una astrónoma aficionada, aborda un barco de vapor con destino a la India desde Inglaterra. Su objetivo: fotografia...
Lost Women of Science - Mujeres Olvidadas de la Ciencia - En Espanõl
Esto es Lost Women of Science - Mujeres Olvidadas de la Ciencia. Laura Gómez, conocida por su papel de Blanca Flores en la exitosa serie de Netflix “O...
Lost Women of Science - In Spanish!
After the success of our bilingual season about the first female doctor trained in the Dominican Republic, The Extraordinary Life and Tragic Death of...
The Weather Expert Who Answered the $64,000 Question
In the mid-1940s, a teenage June Bacon-Bercey saw the image of a nuclear explosion on the cover of Time magazine and immediately had questions. How wo...
Florence Nightingale and her Geeks Declare War on Death
In this episode from the Cautionary Tales podcast, Harford teams up with actor Helena Bonham Carter, a distant relative of Florence Nightingale, to te...
Lost Women of Science Conversations: Air-borne
Air-Borne: the Hidden History of the Air We Breathe by Carl Zimmer charts the history of the field of aerobiology: the science dealing with airborne...
Buried History: The Feminist Birth of the Home Pregnancy Test
Today, we take it for granted that you can buy a home pregnancy test at the pharmacy. Before the end of the 1970s, this was not the case. Then along c...
Lost Women of Science Conversations: The Elements of Marie Curie
In The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science Dava Sobel celebrates the many women who came to Paris to work...
In Evangelina's Footsteps | 5
After Evangelina Rodríguez Perozo died in 1947, the Trujillo regime did its best to erase her legacy, while at the same time appropriating her ideas....
Siguiendo los pasos de Evangelina | 5
Tras la muerte de Evangelina Rodríguez Perozo en 1947, el régimen de Trujillo hizo todo lo posible no solo por borrar su legado, sino también por apro...
El dictador y la doctora | 4
En 1930, Rafael Leónidas Trujillo toma el poder en la República Dominicana e instaura un reino de terror. El controvertido trabajo de Evangelina la pu...
The Dictator and the Doctor | 4
In 1930, Rafael Leónidas Trujillo seized power in the Dominican Republic and introduced a reign of terror. Evangelina’s controversial work brought her...
El retorno de la doctora rebelde | 3
Evangelina recibió una calurosa bienvenida de regreso a su país, y se pone a trabajar de inmediato, introduciendo sus nuevas ideas sobre la atención e...
The Rebel Doctor Returns | 3
Evangelina got a warm welcome on her return from Paris and went straight to work, introducing her new ideas about healthcare for women and children. S...
A Dominican in Paris | 2
Devastated by the death of her mentor following childbirth, Evangelina decided to devote her life to women’s health. It took a decade to raise the mon...
Una dominicana en París | 2
Devastada por la muerte de su mentora, ocurrida tras un parto, Evangelina decidió dedicar su vida a la salud de la mujer. Tardó una década en reunir e...
La doctora | 1
A finales de la década de 1890, Andrea Evangelina Rodríguez Perozo era una de las tantas niñas pobres luchando por sobrevivir en la ciudad de San Pedr...
La Doctora | 1
In the late 1890s, Andrea Evangelina Rodríguez Perozo, known as Evangelina, was just another poor girl trying to survive in the provincial town of San...
La Extraordinaria Vida y Trágica Muerte de Evangelina Rodríguez Perozo
En la década de 1880, una pequeña niña Afro-Dominicana pasaba sus días vendiendo dulces en las calles de San Pedro de Macorís, una bulliciosa ciudad p...
The Extraordinary Life and Tragic Death of Evangelina Rodríguez Perozo
In the 1880s, a small Afro-Dominican girl spent her days selling sweets on the streets of San Pedro de Macorís, a bustling port town in the Dominican...
Lost Women of Science Conversations: Lady Tan's Circle of Women
Lisa See’s novel Lady Tan’s Circle of Women is inspired by a medical textbook published in 1511 by an eminent female doctor, Tan Yunxian. In this epi...
Who Discovered the Cause of Down Syndrome ? Episode Two
In 1960 Marthe Gautier left the lab where she had discovered the genetic cause of Down syndrome, and went on to have a successful career as a pediatri...
Who Discovered the Cause of Down Syndrome? Episode One
In the mid-1950s Marthe Gautier, a young French doctor and cytogenetics researcher, led a cutting-edge experiment to investigate the cause of Down syn...
Margarethe Hilferding, Sigmund Freud, and the Conspiracy of Silence
In honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we are telling the story of Margarethe Hilferding, a pioneering psychoanalyst and physician from...
Lost Women of Science Conversations: Breaking Through
Dr. Katalin Karikó, a Hungarian-born biochemist, dedicated her life’s work to messenger RNA, which she always believed had the potential to change the...
Best Of: Flora Patterson, the Woman who Kept Devastating Blights from U.S. Shores
At this festive time of year, when many people are bringing trees into their homes to decorate for the holidays, we are going back to our story of a p...
Lost Women of Science Conversations - Brave the Wild River
Two female botanists – Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter – made headlines for riding the rapids of the Colorado River in 1938 in an effort to document the...
Lost Women of the Manhattan Project: Carolyn Beatrice Parker
Carolyn Beatrice Parker came from a family of doctors and academics and worked during World War II as a physicist on the Dayton Project, a critical pa...