Women in Science

Killer of Cancer, Slayer of Viruses: The Many Medicines Of Nobel Prize Laureate Gertrude Elion

Dale DeBakcsyApril 15, 2020

Generally, our experience of a particular medicine is as a great faceless thing the name of which we don't know until we desperately need it, and the creation ...

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Disease Fighters: Six Women Who Combated Humanity’s Deadliest Threats

Dale DeBakcsyApril 1, 2020

The last two months have seen heroism of unprecedented scale from the medical workers of the world, and among them a cavalcade of women nurses, doctors, emerge...

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In Defense Of The Soil: A Century With Hydrodynamic Mathematician Pelageya Polubarinova-Kochina

Dale DeBakcsyMarch 25, 2020

Water is that great, terrible thing. Its chemical properties make it a magnificent solvent and coolant, which is wonderful if you're trying to build a multice...

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The Experimentalist: The Tale Of Mary Putnam Jacobi Vs. Proper Victorian Medicine

Dale DeBakcsyMarch 18, 2020

The Nineteenth century boasts a rich roster of medical women, any one of whom is the stuff of heroes: the trailblazing Blackwell sisters, the cautious Elizabet...

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From Quaker Crystallographer To World War Pacifist: The Journey Of Kathleen Lonsdale

Dale DeBakcsyMarch 4, 2020

The list of Quaker women who made fundamental contributions to the science of crystallography while in prison is a short one. In fact, it's a list of one, but...

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Marie-Anne Lavoisier And The Birth of Modern Chemistry

Dale DeBakcsyFebruary 26, 2020

It is early August in the year 1794, and jails, choked with the enemies of Maximilien Robespierre and his Committee for Public Safety, are emptying their human...

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Book Review: Diving Once More Into the Cosmic Ocean… Ann Druyan’s ‘Cosmos: Possible Worlds’

Dale DeBakcsyFebruary 19, 2020

In 1980, PBS broadcast a series that defined for a generation what Science Communication could and must be. Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, co-written by Carl...

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Film Review: ‘The Woman Who Loves Giraffes’, The Story Of Pioneer Wildlife Researcher Anne Innis Dagg

Dale DeBakcsyFebruary 5, 2020

When Anne Innis headed into the Transvaal in 1956, there were no rules or set procedures for how to observe animal behavior in the wild, let alone how to do so...

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Film Trailer: Rosamund Pike Stars As Marie Sklodowska Curie In Radioactive

wyskFebruary 4, 2020

This Women's History Month, Academy Award nominated director Marjane Satrapi (Best Animated Feature Film of the Year - Persepolis, 2007) brings the story of Ma...

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