For every Marie Curie or Rosalind Franklin whose story has been told, hundreds of female scientists
In this episode of Lost Women of Science Conversations, Michelle Nijhuis talks to historian Catherin
While working at the Salk Institute in California, Ursula Bellugi discovered that sign language was
Katharine “Kay” Way was a nuclear physicist who worked at multiple Manhattan Project sites. She was
“Hoots and derision, which did not worry me at all,” Lilian Bland wrote, describing her visit to an
In the first of a new series we’re calling Lost Women of Science Conversations—and a fitting choice
Sara Little Turnbull was a force in the world of material science and industrial design. It’s safe t
The Australian physicist Ruby Payne-Scott helped lay the groundwork for a whole new kind of astronom
Sallie Pero Mead was first hired at AT&T in 1915 as a “computer”—a human calculator—shortly afte
Scientist Leona Zacharias was a rare woman. She graduated from Barnard College in 1927 with a degree
Vera Peters began her career studying treatment for Hodgkin lymphoma. She used techniques that had s
Annie Montague Alexander was an adventurer, amateur paleontologist, and the founding benefactor of t
Emma Unson Rotor took leave from her job as a math teacher in the Philippines to study physics at Jo
In 1925, a young anthropologist named Margaret Mead traveled to Samoa to explore the impact of cultu
Christine Ladd-Franklin is best known for her theory of the evolution of color vision, but her resea
There's a test that we at Lost Women of Science seem to fail again and again: the Finkbeiner Test. N
Today we tell the story of Mária Telkes, one of the developers of solar thermal storage systems, who
In 1856, decades before the term “greenhouse gas” was coined, Eunice Newton Foote demonstrated the g
Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler, born in 1831, was the first African American female medical doctor in the
In the 1960s, a Black home economist at Howard University recruited kids for an experimental prescho
Harriet Jane Lawrence was one of the first female pathologists in the U.S. In the early 1900s she wo
