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Lost Women of Science Conversations: Mathematics for Ladies 26:04

2d ago26:04

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When poet Jessy Randall started researching the lives of female scientists she became angry. And we certainly can relate here at Lost Women of Science. So many women made important discoveries but received little recognition. In this episode of Lost Women of Science Conversations, Randall talks to Carol Sutton Lewis about Mathematics for Ladies: Po…

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Elizabeth Bates and the Search for the Roots of Human Language 37:14

9d ago37:14

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“We were each put on earth to torment the other,” says cognitive scientist Steven Pinker of Elizabeth Bates, a psychologist who challenged the prevailing theory about how humans acquire language. Bates believed that language emerges from interactions between our brains and our environments, and that we do not have an innate language capacity. To ma…

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The Theoretical Physicist Who Worked With J. Robert Oppenheimer at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age 30:33

16d ago30:33

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Melba Phillips, who grew up on a farm in Indiana at the turn of the 20th century, was one of J. Robert Oppenheimer’s first graduate students at the University of California, Berkeley. Together they discovered the Oppenheimer-Phillips Process, which explained a particular kind of nuclear reaction. In this episode, we explain what that is, with a lit…

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Best Of: The Highest of All Ceilings, Astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin 29:49

23d ago29:49

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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was in her early 20s when she figured out what the stars are made of. Both she and her groundbreaking findings were ahead of their time. Continuing the legacy of women working at the Harvard College Observatory, Cecilia charted the way for a generation of female astronomers to come. This Best Of episode of Lost Women of Sci…

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The Victorian Woman Who Chased Eclipses 30:31

1M ago30:31

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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 eclipse. Like the many people whose gaze will turn upwards in North America on April 8, Maunder was fascinated by the secrets of the sun and was determined to travel the globe and unlock them. She un…

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Lost Women of Science Conversations: Mischievous Creatures 25:39

1M ago25:39

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In this episode of Lost Women of Science Conversations, Michelle Nijhuis talks to historian Catherine McNeur about how she rediscovered the lives and work of Elizabeth and Margaretta Morris, two natural scientists who made significant contributions to botany and entomology in the mid-19th Century. Elizabeth collected rare plant species and sent the…

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The Cognitive Scientist Who Unraveled the Mysteries of Language 16:32

1M ago16:32

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While working at the Salk Institute in California, Ursula Bellugi discovered that sign language was made up of specific building blocks that were assembled following strict rules, much like in spoken language. Her subsequent discoveries about the complexities of sign language led both to linguistic breakthroughs and to changes in the way deaf peopl…

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Best Of: Meet the Physicist who Spoke Out Against the Bomb She Helped Create 23:24

2M ago23:24

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Katharine “Kay” Way was a nuclear physicist who worked at multiple Manhattan Project sites. She was an expert in radioactive decay. But after the atomic bombs were dropped on Japan, she became increasingly concerned about the ethics of nuclear weapons. Dr. Way signed the Szilard Petition and worked to spread awareness of the moral responsibility su…

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How Lilian Bland Built Herself A Plane 39:15

2M ago39:15

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“Hoots and derision, which did not worry me at all,” Lilian Bland wrote, describing her visit to an airshow in Blackpool, England in 1909. She’d been telling everyone there that she intended to build and fly her own airplane. They were unimpressed. Lilian was undeterred. She built a DIY plane of bamboo, wood, and fabric, with a bicycle handlebar fo…

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Lost Women of Science Conversations: The Black Angels 27:39

2M ago27:39

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In the first of a new series we’re calling Lost Women of Science Conversations—and a fitting choice for Black History Month—we talk to Maria Smilios, author of a new book that tells the story of Black nurses who were lured from the Jim Crow South to work at a tuberculosis (TB) hospital called Sea View on Staten Island, N.Y. Facing unsanitary condit…

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The Industrial Designer Behind the N95 Mask 12:41

3M ago12:41

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Sara Little Turnbull was a force in the world of material science and industrial design. It’s safe to say most people will have used something that started life on her drawing board, but few will know her name. She worked with engineered fabrics at 3M, designing a moldable bra cup that inspired the design of the N95 mask. Later 3M disputed her role…

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The Universe in Radio Vision 28:30

3M ago28:30

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The Australian physicist Ruby Payne-Scott helped lay the groundwork for a whole new kind of astronomy: radio astronomy. By scanning the skies for radio waves instead of the light waves we can see with our eyes, Ruby and her colleagues opened a window into the universe and transformed the way we explore it. But to keep her job as a woman working for…

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From Our Inbox: Forgotten Electrical Engineer’s Work Paved the Way for Radar Technology 15:18

3M ago15:18

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Sallie Pero Mead was first hired at AT&T in 1915 as a “computer”—a human calculator—shortly after completing her master’s degree in mathematics at Columbia University. Before long she started working on the company’s transmission engineering team as both a mathematician and an electrical engineer. She and her team developed and tested hollow metal …

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Best of: A Complicated Woman, Leona Zacharias 37:15

3M ago37:15

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Scientist Leona Zacharias was a rare woman. She graduated from Barnard College in 1927 with a degree in biology, followed by a Ph.D. from Columbia University. But throughout her career she labored behind men with loftier titles who got the bulk of the credit. In the 1940s, when premature babies born with healthy eyes were going blind, Dr. Zacharias…

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From Our Inbox: Vera Peters - The Doctor Who Helped Spare Women From Radical Mastectomy 12:32

4M ago12:32

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Vera Peters began her career studying treatment for Hodgkin lymphoma. She used techniques that had seen positive outcomes on Hodgkin’s to treat breast cancer patients, and she discovered a treatment that was equally effective and much less invasive than the radical mastectomy, saving hundreds of thousands of women from that life-altering surgery.…

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Adventures of a Bone Hunter 32:27

4M ago32:27

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Annie Montague Alexander was an adventurer, amateur paleontologist, and the founding benefactor of two venerated research collections at UC Berkeley - the UC Museum of Paleontology and the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology. She was born in 1867, the daughter of a wealthy sugar baron, but she never quite fit in with her high society peers. Instead, Annie…

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Emma Unson Rotor: The Filipina Physicist Who Helped Develop a Top Secret Weapon 20:05

5M ago20:05

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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 disrupted when the Imperial Japanese Army invaded and occupied the Philippines. Unable to access her Philippine government scholarship to attend Johns Hopkins, she joined the Ordnance Development Divisio…

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Flapper of the South Seas: A Young Margaret Mead Travels To The South Seas 26:17

5M ago26:17

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In 1925, a young anthropologist named Margaret Mead traveled to Samoa to explore the impact of cultural factors on adolescent development. In her subsequent book Coming of Age in Samoa, Mead described teenagers who were free to explore and express their sexuality. The book struck a chord with readers in the U.S., became a bestseller, and Mead skyro…

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The Devastating Logic of Christine Ladd-Franklin 27:47

5M ago27:47

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Christine Ladd-Franklin is best known for her theory of the evolution of color vision, but her research spanned math, symbolic logic, philosophy, biology, and psychology. Born in Connecticut in 1847, she was clever, sharp-tongued, and never shied away from a battle of wits. When she decided to go to college instead of pursuing a marriage, she convi…

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Best Of: The Feminist Test We Keep Failing 21:59

5M ago21:59

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There's a test that we at Lost Women of Science seem to fail again and again: the Finkbeiner Test. Named for the science writer, Ann Finkbeiner, the Finkbeiner Test is a checklist for writing profiles of female scientists without being sexist. It includes rules like not mentioning her husband’s job, or her childcare arrangements, or how she was the…

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From Our Inbox: Mária Telkes, The Biophysicist Who Harnessed Solar Power 11:05

6M ago11:05

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Today we tell the story of Mária Telkes, one of the developers of solar thermal storage systems, who was so dedicated to the world of solar energy that while she was working at MIT, she earned the nickname: The Sun Queen. Over her lifetime, she registered more than 20 patents, nearly all related to harnessing the power of the sun. Her inventions in…

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The Woman Who Demonstrated the Greenhouse Effect 31:26

6M ago31:26

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In 1856, decades before the term “greenhouse gas” was coined, Eunice Newton Foote demonstrated the greenhouse effect in her home laboratory. She placed a glass cylinder full of carbon dioxide in the sun, and found that it heated up much faster than a cylinder of ordinary air. Her conclusion: more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere results in a warmer…

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Dr. Rebecca Crumpler, America's First Black Female Public Health Pioneer 34:46

6M ago34:46

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Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler, born in 1831, was the first African American female medical doctor in the U.S. and is considered the first Black person to publish a medical book. In it, Dr. Crumpler lays out best practices for good health with a focus on women and children. She writes that she was inspired by her aunt, a community healer and midwife, who…

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Flemmie Kittrell and the Preschool Experiment 36:35

6M ago36:35

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In the 1960s, a Black home economist at Howard University recruited kids for an experimental preschool program. All were Black and lived in poor neighborhoods around campus. Flemmie Kittrell had grown up poor herself, just two generations removed from slavery, and she’d seen firsthand the effects of poverty. While Flemmie earned a PhD from Cornell,…

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From Our Inbox: A Microbe Hunter in Oregon Fights the 1918 Influenza Pandemic 11:47

7M ago11:47

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Harriet Jane Lawrence was one of the first female pathologists in the U.S. In the early 1900s she worked in Portland, Oregon, where she hunted microbes and developed vaccines and serum therapies with the help of 200 guinea pigs that she kept in her garage. Her work on a vaccine during the 1918 influenza pandemic earned her presidential recognition …

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Lost Women of Science Conversations: Mathematics for Ladies 26:04

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Elizabeth Bates and the Search for the Roots of Human Language 37:14

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The Theoretical Physicist Who Worked With J. Robert Oppenheimer at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age 30:33

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Best Of: The Highest of All Ceilings, Astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin 29:49

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The Victorian Woman Who Chased Eclipses 30:31

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Lost Women of Science Conversations: Mischievous Creatures 25:39

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The Cognitive Scientist Who Unraveled the Mysteries of Language 16:32

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Best Of: Meet the Physicist who Spoke Out Against the Bomb She Helped Create 23:24

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How Lilian Bland Built Herself A Plane 39:15

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Lost Women of Science Conversations: The Black Angels 27:39

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The Industrial Designer Behind the N95 Mask 12:41

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The Universe in Radio Vision 28:30

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From Our Inbox: Forgotten Electrical Engineer’s Work Paved the Way for Radar Technology 15:18

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Best of: A Complicated Woman, Leona Zacharias 37:15

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From Our Inbox: Vera Peters - The Doctor Who Helped Spare Women From Radical Mastectomy 12:32

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Adventures of a Bone Hunter 32:27

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Emma Unson Rotor: The Filipina Physicist Who Helped Develop a Top Secret Weapon 20:05

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Flapper of the South Seas: A Young Margaret Mead Travels To The South Seas 26:17

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The Devastating Logic of Christine Ladd-Franklin 27:47

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Best Of: The Feminist Test We Keep Failing 21:59

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From Our Inbox: Mária Telkes, The Biophysicist Who Harnessed Solar Power 11:05

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The Woman Who Demonstrated the Greenhouse Effect 31:26

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Dr. Rebecca Crumpler, America's First Black Female Public Health Pioneer 34:46

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Flemmie Kittrell and the Preschool Experiment 36:35

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From Our Inbox: A Microbe Hunter in Oregon Fights the 1918 Influenza Pandemic 11:47

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