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Lynn Conway and the VLSI Revolution in Microchip Design

Dale DeBakcsyOctober 10, 2018

Last week my stepfather, a retired electrical engineer, passed away at the age of 89, and in the boxes and boxes of papers he had kept as the signifiers of his ...

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Mary Somerville: Savior of British Mathematics

Dale DeBakcsyOctober 3, 2018

In the 1750s, when France was foundering scientifically in the Cartesian shallows, it took Emilie du Châtelet’s French translation of Newton’s Principia to rein...

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Sabine Hossenfelder and the Trials of 21st Century Physics

Dale DeBakcsySeptember 26, 2018

It is a story in three acts, ending with many bangs and much whimpering. Act I: In the early 20th century, a small cadre of physicists laid the groundwork f...

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A Bay of Botany: Alice Eastwood’s Nine Decades and Three Hundred Thousand Specimens

Dale DeBakcsySeptember 19, 2018

April 18, 1906, and Alice Eastwood's lunch bag hangs casually from a mastodon's tusk while outside, a proud city burns. It is the morning of the great San Fran...

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The Hard Rise And Long Fall Of Elizabeth Blackwell (1818-1910), The First Woman MD

Dale DeBakcsySeptember 12, 2018

The long life of Elizabeth Blackwell (1818-1910), the first woman to earn a Medical Degree in America, can be divided into two roughly equal parts: four decades...

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Children are People: The Life and Science Of Anna Freud

Dale DeBakcsySeptember 5, 2018

Humans have a profound genius for generating terrible ideas. Slavery. Theocratic government. But there is one particular idea we hung onto for an unfathomabl...

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One Doctor Against Nuclear War: Helen Caldicott And The Creation Of The Physicians For Social Responsibility

Dale DeBakcsyAugust 29, 2018

It might be difficult to believe if you were born within the last three decades, but there was once a time when America was led by a doddering former B-List cel...

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Lymph, There It Is: Florence Sabin, Pioneer Woman of Medical Research

Dale DeBakcsyAugust 22, 2018

For women in science, posterity has three fates in store. Some, like Marie Curie or Rosalyn Yalow, are recognized in their time and remain that way in the hist...

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Nessa Carey, Voice of the Epigenetics Revolution

Dale DeBakcsyAugust 15, 2018

In the halls of scientific nomenclature, there are two terms that are, and have been for some time now, ripe for the chopping block. One is "imaginary number,"...

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