For every Marie Curie or Rosalind Franklin whose story has been told, hundreds of female scientists
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In the late 1890s, Andrea Evangelina Rodríguez Perozo, known as Evangelina, was just another poor gi
En la década de 1880, una pequeña niña Afro-Dominicana pasaba sus días vendiendo dulces en las calle
In the 1880s, a small Afro-Dominican girl spent her days selling sweets on the streets of San Pedro
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In the mid-1950s Marthe Gautier, a young French doctor and cytogenetics researcher, led a cutting-ed
In honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we are telling the story of Margarethe Hilferdi
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While researching her book about thalidomide in America, Jennifer Vanderbes discovered that there we
It’s September 2024 and a group of American thalidomide survivors arrive in Washington D.C. to lobby
