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The Ultimate Women in Science Reading List: 150 Essential Titles

Dale DeBakcsyDecember 26, 2018

December 16 saw my fifth anniversary of writing the Illustrated Women in Science column, and of the many ways that occurred to me to celebrate, the one I though...

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Dr. Mary Bunting (1910-1998): From Microbiologist to College President

Dale DeBakcsyDecember 19, 2018

There is a lot of life left to live after one's children are out of the house. It might seem an obvious statement, but it was a fact that the university syst...

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The High Temperature Quantum Chromodynamics Of Ágnes Mócsy

Dale DeBakcsyDecember 12, 2018

When planning a trip to the universe's first millionth of a second of existence, there are really only two things the canny traveler needs to keep in mind: (...

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The Last of the Women Physicians: Dorothea Leporin Erxleben (1715-1762)

Dale DeBakcsyDecember 5, 2018

Prior to the Eighteenth Century, the answer to the question, "Who was allowed to practice medicine?" was relatively simple: Damn near anybody. While those who ...

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Nobel Laureate Rita Levi-Montalcini and the Discovery Of Nerve Growth Factor

Dale DeBakcsyNovember 28, 2018

It is 1942, and Allied bombs are raking the city of Turin, wreaking a thudding vengeance for Il Duce’s cynical alliance with Nazi Germany. Amidst the panic and...

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Speaking Culture to Psychoanalysis: The Karen Horney Gender Revolution

Dale DeBakcsyNovember 21, 2018

How much of womanhood is a matter of biology, and how much one of culture? Prior to 1929, Freudian psychoanalysis had closed rank determinedly around a biologi...

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Octopuses at Work and Play: Dr. Jennifer Mather and Cephalopod Cognition

Dale DeBakcsyNovember 14, 2018

On paper, the octopus looks like a mythical beast we made up by combining all of the most outlandish bits from our favorite fictional characters. It has multip...

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Lady Mary Montagu and Europe’s First Tool Against Smallpox

Dale DeBakcsyNovember 7, 2018

In the Seventeenth Century, smallpox ravaged Europe with a persistent ferocity beyond reckoning. At its height, it killed 400,000 Europeans a year, in a manner...

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Ada Lovelace And The Curious Practice Of Programming For Non-Existent Computers

Dale DeBakcsyNovember 1, 2018

What did Ada Lovelace do? She is one of the most fetishized scientists today - at conventions when I'm taking sketch commissions she ranks just behind Tesla ...

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