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Lost Women of Science

For every Marie Curie or Rosalind Franklin whose story has been told, hundreds of female scientists

Episodes

Total: 129

To understand how Klára Dán von Neumann arrived at computer programming, we need to first understand

The first modern-style code executed on a computer was written in the 1940s by a woman named Klára D

In 1949, at the height of his career, Rustin McIntosh, the director of pediatrics at Columbia Univer

In our final episode, we explore Dorothy Andersen’s legacy—what she left behind and how her work has

A missing portrait of Dr. Andersen takes us on a journey into the perils of memorialization—and who

A passionate outdoorswoman, a “rugged individualist,” and a bit of an enigma—the few traces Dr. Ande

When Dr. Dorothy Andersen confronted a slew of confounding infant deaths, she suspected the accepted

When Dr. Dorothy Andersen confronted a slew of confounding infant deaths, she knew the accepted diag

For every Marie Curie or Rosalind Franklin whose story has been told, hundreds of female scientists