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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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Spherical Triangles and Domineering Males: The Saga Of Mathematician Grace Chisholm Young

Dale DeBakcsySeptember 4, 2019

When Grace Chisholm, at age 28, married the mathematician William Henry Young, she had every prospect of a brilliant career before her. The previous year she ...

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Caroline Haslett And The Rise Of The Women’s Engineering Society

Dale DeBakcsyAugust 28, 2019

1919 was a year of promise born of misery. Between the ravages of influenza and the indiscriminate trench carnage of the First World War, millions had pe...

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Ruth Gordon Schnapp, California’s First Woman Structural Engineer

Dale DeBakcsyAugust 14, 2019

In the year 1933, the Long Beach Earthquake bore down on Southern California with the fury of revelation. At 6.4, it was not the largest earthquake to ev...

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Queen Of The Stone Age: Dorothy Garrod And The Professionalization Of Archaeology

Dale DeBakcsyJuly 31, 2019

There is a deep seam that lies astride the history of European archaeology - on one side you have the hero-explorers, men and women who took impossibly romanti...

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The Queen Of Trees: Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai And The Rise Of The Green Belt Movement

Dale DeBakcsyJuly 17, 2019

Imagine a patch of land brimming with rich topsoil. Within that dark brown earth lies the core of a civilization - its ability to feed itself. Prot...

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Nobel Prize Laureate Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard And The Mysteries Of Embryo Development

Dale DeBakcsyJune 26, 2019

How is it that, starting from a single fertilized egg, employing only mechanical processes, you can form a kangaroo, a housefly, or a human? It is one of the m...

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The Women’s Space Program That Wasn’t: The Story Of The Mercury 13

Dale DeBakcsyJune 12, 2019

The story of the Mercury 13, as it is usually told, features 13 heroes, 2 villains, and a throng of supportive roles stretched between them in the grey. ...

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Mary Sherman Morgan, The World’s First Woman Rocket Scientist

Dale DeBakcsyMay 29, 2019

On October 4, 1957, the United States received the greatest single blow to its prestige since the burning of the White House in 1814 with the announcement that...

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