For every Marie Curie or Rosalind Franklin whose story has been told, hundreds of female scientists
In the early 1950s, Marie Nyswander was ready to move on from addiction. She set up a private practi
In 1946, Marie Nyswander, a recent medical school graduate, joined the U.S. Public Health Service lo
In 1965, a team of doctors at Rockefeller University announced what sounded like a miracle—they’d fo
In 1909, the Mayor of Tokyo sent a gift of 2,000 prized cherry trees to Washington, D.C. But the ico
Scientist Leona Zacharias was a rare woman. She graduated from Barnard College in 1927 with a degree
Each season of Lost Women of Science tells the story of one remarkable female scientist, but hundred
We’re hard at work producing the next season of Lost Women of Science, but we wanted to bring you th
There's a test that we at Lost Women of Science seem to fail again and again: the Finkbeiner Test. N
This week, we’re bringing you an episode from another podcast hosted and produced by Katie Hafner, O
YY taught at Tennessee State University, a historically Black university, for 55 years. In this epis
What is mechanical engineering? What was YY actually doing? This episode is about the work itself –
When YY started college at Howard University as a mechanical engineering student, there were three t
With a librarian mother and a physician father, YY was brought up in a supportive, educated, and pro
Yvonne Y. Clark, known as YY throughout her career, has also been nicknamed “The First Lady of Engin
Carol Sutton Lewis, host of the podcast Ground Control Parenting, has long been interested in Black
We saw the story over and over again: computer programmer Klára Dán von Neumann was a pioneer in wea
After Johnny’s death, Klári becomes the keeper of his legacy. It’s an exhausting, full-time commitme
After World War II, tensions build between the Soviet Union and the U.S. Scientists at Los Alamos co
When John von Neumann runs into fellow mathematician Herman Goldstine at a train station, Goldstine
With John von Neumann absorbed in work, Klári struggles to find a niche in her new suburban home whi
