Lost Women of Science
For every Marie Curie or Rosalind Franklin whose story has been told, hundreds of female scientists remain unknown to the public at large. In this series, we illuminate the lives and work of a diverse array of groundbreaking scientists who, because of time, place and gender, have gone largely unrecognized. Each season we focus on a different scientist, putting her narrative into context, explaining not just the science but also the social and historical conditions in which she lived and worked. We also bring these stories to the present, painting a full picture of how her work endures.Podcasts
Lost Women of Science Conversations: Wonder Drug
Published: Oct. 17, 2024, 7 a.m.Duration: 36 minutes 54 seconds
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The Devil in the Details - Chapter Five
Published: Oct. 10, 2024, 7 a.m.Duration: 36 minutes 7 seconds
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The Devil in the Details - Chapter Four
Published: Oct. 3, 2024, 7 a.m.Duration: 33 minutes 4 seconds
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The Devil in the Details - Chapter Three
Published: Sept. 26, 2024, 7 a.m.Duration: 28 minutes 45 seconds
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The Devil in the Details - Chapter Two
Published: Sept. 19, 2024, 7 a.m.Duration: 30 minutes 45 seconds
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The Devil in the Details - Chapter One
Published: Sept. 12, 2024, 7 a.m.Duration: 29 minutes 20 seconds
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Trailer: The Devil in the Details
Published: Aug. 29, 2024, 11 a.m.Duration: 1 minute 43 seconds
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Lost Women of Science Conversations: Writing for Their Lives
Published: Aug. 22, 2024, 7 a.m.Duration: 28 minutes 54 seconds
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The Quest for Everything
Published: Aug. 8, 2024, 7 a.m.Duration: 29 minutes 53 seconds
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Dr. Jess Wade, Physicist and Wikipedia Maven
Published: July 25, 2024, 7 a.m.Duration: 15 minutes 56 seconds
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Lost Women of Science Conversations: The Exceptions
Published: July 11, 2024, 7 a.m.Duration: 34 minutes 59 seconds
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Chemistry Professor and Crime Buster: The Remarkable Life of Mary Louisa Willard
Published: June 27, 2024, 7 a.m.Duration: 30 minutes 45 seconds
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Lost Women of Science Conversations: Wild By Design
Published: June 13, 2024, 7 a.m.Duration: 26 minutes 52 seconds
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Revisiting the Pathologist in the Basement: Episode 2 The Matilda Effect
Published: May 16, 2024, 7 a.m.Duration: 44 minutes 20 seconds
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Revisiting the Pathologist in the Basement
Published: May 9, 2024, 7 a.m.Duration: 31 minutes 7 seconds
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Lost Women of Science Conversations: Mathematics for Ladies
Published: May 2, 2024, 7 a.m.Duration: 26 minutes 4 seconds
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Elizabeth Bates and the Search for the Roots of Human Language
Published: April 25, 2024, 7 a.m.Duration: 37 minutes 14 seconds
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The Theoretical Physicist Who Worked With J. Robert Oppenheimer at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age
Published: April 18, 2024, 7 a.m.Duration: 30 minutes 33 seconds
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Best Of: The Highest of All Ceilings, Astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
Published: April 11, 2024, 7 a.m.Duration: 29 minutes 49 seconds
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The Victorian Woman Who Chased Eclipses
Published: April 4, 2024, 7 a.m.Duration: 30 minutes 31 seconds
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Lost Women of Science Conversations: Mischievous Creatures
Published: March 28, 2024, 8 a.m.Duration: 25 minutes 39 seconds
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The Cognitive Scientist Who Unraveled the Mysteries of Language
Published: March 21, 2024, 8 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 32 seconds
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Best Of: Meet the Physicist who Spoke Out Against the Bomb She Helped Create
Published: March 14, 2024, 5 a.m.Duration: 23 minutes 24 seconds
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How Lilian Bland Built Herself A Plane
Published: March 7, 2024, 8 a.m.Duration: 39 minutes 15 seconds
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Lost Women of Science Conversations: The Black Angels
Published: Feb. 29, 2024, 8 a.m.Duration: 27 minutes 39 seconds
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The Industrial Designer Behind the N95 Mask
Published: Feb. 15, 2024, 8 a.m.Duration: 12 minutes 41 seconds
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The Universe in Radio Vision
Published: Feb. 8, 2024, 8 a.m.Duration: 28 minutes 30 seconds
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From Our Inbox: Forgotten Electrical Engineers Work Paved the Way for Radar Technology
Published: Feb. 1, 2024, 8 a.m.Duration: 15 minutes 18 seconds
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Best of: A Complicated Woman, Leona Zacharias
Published: Jan. 25, 2024, 8 a.m.Duration: 37 minutes 15 seconds
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From Our Inbox: Vera Peters - The Doctor Who Helped Spare Women From Radical Mastectomy
Published: Jan. 11, 2024, 8 a.m.Duration: 12 minutes 32 seconds
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Adventures of a Bone Hunter
Published: Jan. 4, 2024, 8 a.m.Duration: 32 minutes 27 seconds
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Emma Unson Rotor: The Filipina Physicist Who Helped Develop a Top Secret Weapon
Published: Dec. 14, 2023, 8 a.m.Duration: 20 minutes 5 seconds
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Flapper of the South Seas: A Young Margaret Mead Travels To The South Seas
Published: Dec. 7, 2023, 8 a.m.Duration: 26 minutes 17 seconds
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The Devastating Logic of Christine Ladd-Franklin
Published: Nov. 30, 2023, 8 a.m.Duration: 27 minutes 47 seconds
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Best Of: The Feminist Test We Keep Failing
Published: Nov. 23, 2023, 8 a.m.Duration: 21 minutes 59 seconds
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From Our Inbox: Maria Telkes, The Biophysicist Who Harnessed Solar Power
Published: Nov. 16, 2023, 8 a.m.Duration: 11 minutes 5 seconds
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The Woman Who Demonstrated the Greenhouse Effect
Published: Nov. 9, 2023, 8 a.m.Duration: 31 minutes 26 seconds
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Dr. Rebecca Crumpler, America's First Black Female Public Health Pioneer
Published: Nov. 2, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 34 minutes 46 seconds
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Flemmie Kittrell and the Preschool Experiment
Published: Oct. 26, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 36 minutes 35 seconds
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From Our Inbox: A Microbe Hunter in Oregon Fights the 1918 Influenza Pandemic
Published: Oct. 19, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 11 minutes 47 seconds
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The English Lit Major Who Cracked Nazi Codes
Published: Oct. 12, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 35 minutes 19 seconds
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Who was Christine Essenberg? A remarkable zoologist almost lost to history
Published: Oct. 5, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 29 minutes 59 seconds
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Dr. Sarah Loguen Fraser, an ex-slaves daughter, becomes a celebrated doctor
Published: Sept. 28, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 31 minutes 52 seconds
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A Flair for Efficiency: The Woman Who Redesigned the American Kitchen
Published: Sept. 21, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 34 minutes 35 seconds
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Part 2: Why Did Lise Meitner Never Receive the Nobel Prize for Splitting the Atom?
Published: Sept. 14, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 26 minutes 21 seconds
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Part 1: Why Did Lise Meitner Never Receive the Nobel Prize for Splitting the Atom?
Published: Sept. 7, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 26 minutes 17 seconds
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They Remembered the Lost Women of the Manhattan Project So That We Wouldn't Forget
Published: Aug. 31, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 11 minutes 7 seconds
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Meet the Physicist who Spoke Out Against the Bomb She Helped Create
Published: Aug. 24, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 21 minutes 59 seconds
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The Story of the Real Lilli Hornig, the Only Female Scientist Named in the Film Oppenheimer
Published: Aug. 17, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 58 seconds
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No Place for a Woman in Mathematics? The Woman Who Ended up Supervising The Computations that Proved an Atomic Bomb Would Work
Published: Aug. 3, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 15 minutes 58 seconds
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Blood, Sweat, and Fears: The Story of Floy Agnes Lee, the Young Woman Who Analyzed the Blood of Manhattan Project Scientists
Published: July 27, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 14 minutes 43 seconds
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One of Many Lost Women of the Manhattan Project: Leona Woods Marshall Libby
Published: July 20, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 11 minutes 45 seconds
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Women of the Manhattan Project: Trailer
Published: July 13, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 minute 30 seconds
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From Our Inbox: Alessandra Giliani, 14th-century Italian anatomist
Published: July 6, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 7 minutes 14 seconds
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The Highest of All Ceilings: Astronomer Cecilia Payne
Published: June 22, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 29 minutes 4 seconds
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What's in a Street Name? Everything.
Published: June 1, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 19 minutes 36 seconds
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The Doctor and the Fix: Chapter 5
Published: May 4, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 35 minutes 25 seconds
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Reminder about next episode and an update
Published: April 27, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 32 seconds
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The Doctor and the Fix: Chapter 4
Published: April 20, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 38 minutes 32 seconds
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The Doctor and the Fix: Chapter 3
Published: April 13, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 34 minutes 41 seconds
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The Doctor and the Fix: Chapter 2
Published: April 6, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 27 minutes 50 seconds
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The Doctor and the Fix: Chapter 1
Published: March 30, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 28 minutes 15 seconds
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The Doctor and the Fix: Trailer
Published: March 16, 2023, 10 a.m.Duration: 1 minute 44 seconds
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Of Chestnuts, Cherry Trees, and Mushroom Catsup: Flora Patterson, the Woman who Kept Devastating Blights from U.S. Shores
Published: Jan. 26, 2023, 1 p.m.Duration: 24 minutes 22 seconds
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A Complicated Woman: Leona Zacharias
Published: Jan. 12, 2023, 1 p.m.Duration: 35 minutes 57 seconds
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Introducing Lost Women of Science Shorts: Trailer
Published: Jan. 5, 2023, 8 a.m.Duration: 1 minute 37 seconds
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The Woman Who Knocked Science Sideways
Published: Dec. 1, 2022, 8 a.m.Duration: 27 minutes 57 seconds
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The Feminist Test We Keep Failing
Published: Nov. 17, 2022, 8 a.m.Duration: 21 minutes 28 seconds
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The First Lady of Engineering: An Interview with Y.Y.'s Daughter, Carol Lawson
Published: Nov. 3, 2022, 7 a.m.Duration: 34 minutes 19 seconds
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The First Lady of Engineering: Chapter 4
Published: Oct. 13, 2022, 7 a.m.Duration: 39 minutes 2 seconds
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The First Lady of Engineering: Chapter 3
Published: Oct. 6, 2022, 7 a.m.Duration: 37 minutes 18 seconds
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The First Lady of Engineering: Chapter 2
Published: Sept. 29, 2022, 7 a.m.Duration: 35 minutes 4 seconds
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The First Lady of Engineering: Chapter 1
Published: Sept. 22, 2022, 7 a.m.Duration: 34 minutes 39 seconds
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The First Lady of Engineering: Trailer
Published: Sept. 8, 2022, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 minute 41 seconds
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Meet our new cohost!
Published: Sept. 1, 2022, 7 a.m.Duration: 1 minute 46 seconds
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A Grasshopper in Tall Grass: The Weather Myth
Published: June 2, 2022, 7 a.m.Duration: 26 minutes 24 seconds
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A Grasshopper in Tall Grass: Chapter 5
Published: April 28, 2022, 7 a.m.Duration: 30 minutes 4 seconds
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A Grasshopper in Tall Grass: Chapter 4
Published: April 21, 2022, 7 a.m.Duration: 40 minutes 11 seconds
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A Grasshopper in Tall Grass: Chapter 3
Published: April 14, 2022, 7 a.m.Duration: 37 minutes 48 seconds
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A Grasshopper in Tall Grass: Chapter 2
Published: April 7, 2022, 7 a.m.Duration: 40 minutes 9 seconds
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A Grasshopper in Tall Grass: Chapter 1
Published: March 31, 2022, 7 a.m.Duration: 37 minutes 30 seconds
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A Grasshopper in Very Tall Grass: Trailer
Published: March 17, 2022, 11:14 a.m.Duration: 2 minutes
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The Pathologist in the Basement: The Resignation
Published: Dec. 23, 2021, 8 a.m.Duration: 26 minutes 51 seconds
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The Pathologist in the Basement: Chapter 4
Published: Nov. 25, 2021, 8 a.m.Duration: 37 minutes 10 seconds
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The Pathologist in the Basement: Chapter 3
Published: Nov. 18, 2021, 8 a.m.Duration: 28 minutes 37 seconds
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The Pathologist in the Basement: Chapter 2
Published: Nov. 11, 2021, 8 a.m.Duration: 38 minutes 43 seconds
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The Pathologist in the Basement: Chapter 1
Published: Nov. 4, 2021, 7 a.m.Duration: 31 minutes 7 seconds
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The Pathologist in the Basement: Trailer
Published: Oct. 20, 2021, 2:33 p.m.Duration: 3 minutes 13 seconds
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Lost Women of Science: Trailer
Published: Oct. 14, 2021, 7:03 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 46 seconds
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