For every Marie Curie or Rosalind Franklin whose story has been told, hundreds of female scientists
Known as “America’s first female cryptanalyst,” Elizebeth Smith Friedman was a master codebreaker wh
Christine Essenberg had an unusual life and an unusual career trajectory. She was married, then divo
Born in 1850, Sarah Loguen found her calling as a child, when she helped her parents and Harriet Tub
In the late 1920s, Lillian Gilbreth enlisted her children — she had 11— in an experiment: bake a str
We continue the story of Jewish physicist Lise Meitner, the first person to understand that the atom
New translations of hundreds of letters explain, in a two-part episode of Lost Women of Science, why
In the early 1990s, two physicists, Ruth Howes and Caroline Herzenberg, began looking into a questio
Katharine “Kay” Way was a nuclear physicist who worked at multiple Manhattan Project sites. She was
Lilli Hornig was only 23 years old when she arrived at Los Alamos to contribute to the development o
Naomi Livesay, born in 1916 in the northern reaches of Montana, aspired to one career: mathematics.
Floy Agnes Lee was a hematologist at Los Alamos. Recruited to the Manhattan Project while still a s
Leona Woods Marshall Libby was the only woman hired onto Enrico Fermi's team at the Metallurgical La
During World War II, thousands of scientists and engineers worked on the Manhattan project, the top
Welcome to the first in our From Our Inbox series, in which we give listeners a taste of the mail we
Cecilia Payne was in her early 20s when she figured out what the stars are made of. Both she and her
In 1992, a Dutch doctor named Josh von Soer Clemm von Hohenberg wrote a letter to Henning Voscherau,
Marie Nyswander died in 1986. She’d achieved almost everything she set out to, but she wanted more:
A reminder that our next episode is scheduled to come out next Thursday! In the meantime, we’ve hit
Marie Nyswander and her team at Rockefeller unveil their findings at last: methadone has utterly tra
After years of disappointing results in her quest to treat heroin addiction, Marie Nyswander was mor
