For every Marie Curie or Rosalind Franklin whose story has been told, hundreds of female scientists
It’s the summer of 1962 and thalidomide has been off the market in Europe for months. But in the U.S
It’s 1961 and Widukind Lenz, a German pediatrician, is going door to door in his efforts to find out
It’s the early 1960s and the German pharmaceutical market is booming. A sedative called Contergan is
In this first chapter of a new five-part season we meet Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey, a physician and p
In the 1950s, a German drug company developed a new sedative that was supposed to be 100% safe: thal
In the 1920s, when newspapers and magazines started to showcase stories about science, many of the e
By the second half of the 20th century, physicists were on a mission to find the ultimate building b
Dr. Jess Wade is a physicist at Imperial College London who’s made it her mission to write and updat
Dr. Nancy Hopkins, a molecular biologist who made major discoveries in cancer genetics, became an un
“The only time I ever saw something that I thought was abnormal…there was a human arm in the refrig
When Laura J. Martin decided to write a history of ecological restoration, she didn’t think she woul
In our final episode, we explore Dorothy Andersen’s legacy — what she left behind and how her work h
The missing portrait of Dr. Andersen takes us on a journey into the perils of memorialization and wh
Our associate producer, Sophie McNulty, rummages through boxes in a Connecticut basement, looking fo
A few important things have happened in the three years since we first aired The Pathologist in the
When poet Jessy Randall started researching the lives of female scientists she became angry. And we
“We were each put on earth to torment the other,” says cognitive scientist Steven Pinker of Elizabet
Melba Phillips, who grew up on a farm in Indiana at the turn of the 20th century, was one of J. Robe
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was in her early 20s when she figured out what the stars are made of. Both
The year is 1897 and Annie Maunder, an amateur astronomer, is boarding a steamship bound for India f
