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Gone, Fission: How Lise Meitner Was Written Out Of The Nuclear Age

Dale DeBakcsyApril 3, 2019

To fully appreciate Lise Meitner, you have to first forget everything you learned about the atom in high school. Forget that the nucleus is made up of ne...

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Leona Marshall Libby And The American Atomic Bomb

Dale DeBakcsyMarch 27, 2019

Leona Woods (1919-1986) was only 23 years old, fresh from wrapping up her PhD work in spectroscopy in the basement of the University of Chicago's Eckhart Hall,...

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Guns N Taxonomy: The Vertebrate Biology Of Annie Alexander

Dale DeBakcsyMarch 20, 2019

As a rule, our favorite flavors of scientist are the theoretical and experimental – we tend to like them either sitting in a chair creating beautiful abstracti...

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Meet Caroline Herschel (1750-1848): History’s First Professional Woman Astronomer

Dale DeBakcsyMarch 15, 2019

In 2092, if there are still humans on our planet to look and to see, a comet will appear in the night sky that has not been viewed since 1939, and will not be s...

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Dr. Cardy Raper And The Four Decade Search For The Key To Mushroom Sex

Dale DeBakcsyMarch 13, 2019

Let's do a thought experiment. Imagine that human reproduction worked this way: at a certain age you are blindfolded and led to a massive field with a hu...

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The Many Triumphs And Long Fall Of Nuclear Physicist Harriet Brooks (1876-1933)

Dale DeBakcsyMarch 6, 2019

Reading the life of Harriet Brooks (1876-1933) is like watching the gradual, inevitable unfolding of a horror movie. There's that same idyllic, promising begin...

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Theano of Croton And The Pythagorean Women Of Ancient Greece

Dale DeBakcsyFebruary 27, 2019

2500 years ago, in a small but soon to be revered town in Southern Italy, a group of men and women gathered, united by the proposition that the universe is, at...

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Julia Robinson And The Cracking Of Hilbert’s 10th Problem

Dale DeBakcsyFebruary 20, 2019

For mathematicians, the only thing more exciting than proving a theorem is proving that it can never be proven. These anti-proofs, if you will, stand fir...

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Dr. Anne Innis Dagg, Giraffe, And The Winding Road Of The Citizen Scientist

Dale DeBakcsyFebruary 13, 2019

Before Jane and Dian, Biruté and Jeanne, there was Anne. In 1957 Anne Innis (b. 1933) became the first woman to attempt a solo animal research expedi...

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