The Last Woman Who Knew Everything: The Omnivorous Mind Of Clémence Royer
When Clémence Royer died on February 7, 1902, she took with her into oblivion perhaps the last human brain that believed in and aimed for Complete Knowledge.&n...
Women in Science
A Scientist Takes The Helm: The Story of German Chancellor Angela Merkel
In 1989, Angela Merkel was a quantum chemist with a respectable reputation for applying statistical mathematics to chemical analysis. In 1991, she was a ...
The Fourth Castle: The Unfathomable Resiliency Of Pioneering Oceanographer Kathleen Crane
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second ...
An ER Doctor In Space: The Story of Astronaut Rhea Seddon
The first astronaut class to include women candidates, announced in 1978 and self-dubbed the TFNG, or Thirty-Five New Guys, brought six women into the variousl...
From The Underground Railroad In Syracuse To A Historic Practice In Santo Domingo: The Journey Of Dr. Sarah Loguen Fraser
In 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell became the first American woman to earn a Medical Degree, and within half a century seven thousand American women had followed her...
A Healer At The Fringe Of Civilization: The Siberian Odyssey Of Doctor Anna Bek
It is the early 1870s and we are heading into the mining town of Gornyi Zerentui, located in the mountainous Transbaikal region on the distant Siberian fringe ...
Emma Darwin And The Invisible Heroism Of The Scientific Caretaker
The road leading to the creation and publication of The Origin of the Species was one of the most tortuous and personally costly in the history of science.&nbs...
Breaking Neutral: The Population Genetics Of Tomoko Ohta
We are all mutants, our genes loaded with the steadily acquired variations of three billion years that gradually changed a collection of over-achieving thermop...
Caged By War: The Abbreviated Life Of Aeronautical Engineer And Test Pilot Countess Melitta von Stauffenberg
The last decade of Countess Melitta von Stauffenberg's life was ringed by impossible decisions, choices that you and I will never experience outside of a theor...