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From Wartime Radar To W-Bosons: The Experimental Physics Of Joan Freeman

Dale DeBakcsyNovember 20, 2019

In 1983, one of the great pillars of modern physics was cemented in place when CERN announced the discovery of a group of particles that stood at the center of...

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The Path Of Most Resistance: Sophia Jex-Blake And The Fight For Women’s Medical Education

Dale DeBakcsyNovember 13, 2019

She had founded first England and then Scotland's first medical school for women, and been instrumental in the passing of the Medical Act that allowed women to...

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The Professor And The Frogs: The Ecology And Herpetology Of Margaret Stewart

Dale DeBakcsyOctober 22, 2019

Amphibians today are experiencing a population crisis of unprecedented scale. Frogs are going extinct, according to the most conservative estimates, at t...

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Food’s Bright Future: Leah Garcés And The Long Struggle To Replace Factory Farming

Dale DeBakcsyOctober 9, 2019

Vegans and meat consumers do not typically enter into common cause. To the meat eater, vegans are bleeding heart, elitist scolds, and to the vegan, meat consu...

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Siblings In Cognition: Diana Reiss And The Study Of The Dolphin Mind

Dale DeBakcsyOctober 2, 2019

One of the most persistently amazing things about modern science has been its ability to cut humanity loose from the limitations of our immediate caveperson co...

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Forgetting Elizebeth Friedman: How America’s Greatest Cryptanalyst Lay Unnoticed For A Half Century

Dale DeBakcsySeptember 25, 2019

When World War I came at last to the United States, the armed forces found themselves in the embarrassing predicament of having no idea whatsoever on how to de...

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Born Not Taught: Marian Koshland And The Source Of Antibody Variation

Dale DeBakcsySeptember 18, 2019

The human body is a truly wonderful place to live, if you can fit in it. It's warm and protected and, because humans are so clever at finding all the bes...

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Valentina Tereshkova: The First Woman In Space

Dale DeBakcsySeptember 12, 2019

"It is I, Sea Gull!" The words, full of meaning both personal for the speaker and cultural for the country listening below, were the first spoken by a woman...

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Untold And Lost No More: Celebrating 150 Episodes Of Dale DeBakcsy’s ‘Women In Science’ You Should Know Column

wyskSeptember 5, 2019

Five years into our now eight year mission to tell the untold, often ignored, and altogether lost or erased stories of women who deserve a giant spotlight on t...

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