Women in Science

Master Of Matrices: Olga Taussky-Todd And How One Of Math’s Coolest Objects Refound Its Groove

Dale DeBakcsyMay 12, 2021

In high school, matrices don’t get anything near a fair shake. In case it’s been a while, matrices were those rectangular grids of numbers that look some...

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Women In Science New Book Release Roundup 2021

Dale DeBakcsyMay 5, 2021

There was a time when those of us in the Women In Science (WIS) book-verse considered it a banner year when TWO new major releases featuring a prominent woman ...

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Lady Of Iron: The Life Of Victorian Industrialist Lady Charlotte Guest

Dale DeBakcsyApril 28, 2021

There was a time, during the Golden Age of Railroads, when the name of the small Welsh town of Dowlais was stamped on iron rails that ran the length of the dev...

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Book Review: Volcanologist Jess Phoenix’s ‘Ms. Adventure: My Wild Explorations in Science, Lava, and Life’

Dale DeBakcsyMarch 31, 2021

Science communication is all too often a matter of reporting end states. Scientist X has discovered Thing Y, and we should be happy/anxious/enraged about...

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Ivory And Bone: Agatha Christie And Her Three Decades Of Archaeology

Dale DeBakcsyMarch 17, 2021

In a tent in Iraq, an Englishwoman attempts to sleep as mice crawl over her body and cockroaches look on from the walls. She is exhausted, having divided...

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From The Plumage Of Birds To The Classification Of The Natural Kingdom: The Life Of Ornithologist Graceanna Lewis

Dale DeBakcsyMarch 3, 2021

In the mid 19th century, American biological science was tentatively feeling its way forward along a half dozen different and contradictory directions as it ga...

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Naval Engineer Raye Montague And The Tale Of The World’s First Computer-Designed Naval Vessel

Dale DeBakcsyFebruary 17, 2021

In March 1971, a computer science whiz with an unlikely background was given six months to complete a seemingly impossible project for the United States Navy: ...

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Catalysts And Photoreactivity: Discoveries From The Life Of Elizabeth Fulhame, Europe’s First Woman Chemical Researcher

Dale DeBakcsyFebruary 10, 2021

Sometimes, the presence of a third party allows two people to accomplish something they either could not pull off, or would take an agonizingly long time to ac...

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Biplanes, Airships, Submarines: My Talk With Dr. Nina Baker About The Engineering Legacy Of Hilda Lyon

Dale DeBakcsyJanuary 27, 2021

One of the great things about writing this column is the fact that, from time to time, I get to talk with remarkable people about other remarkable people. ...

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