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Lost Women of Science
Lost Women of Science
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... more

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Episodes

Who Discovered the Cause of Down Syndrome ? Episode Two

In 1960 Marthe Gautier left the lab where she had discovered the genetic cause of Down syndrome, and went on... more

13 Feb 2025 · 31 minutes
Who Discovered the Cause of Down Syndrome? Episode One

In the mid-1950s Marthe Gautier, a young French doctor and cytogenetics researcher, led a cutting-edge experiment to investigate the cause... more

06 Feb 2025 · 25 minutes
Margarethe Hilferding, Sigmund Freud, and the Conspiracy of Silence

In honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we are telling the story of Margarethe Hilferding, a pioneering psychoanalyst and physician... more

23 Jan 2025 · 41 minutes
Lost Women of Science Conversations: Breaking Through

Dr. Katalin Karikó, a Hungarian-born biochemist, dedicated her life’s work to messenger RNA, which she always believed had the potential... more

09 Jan 2025 · 34 minutes
Best Of: Flora Patterson, the Woman who Kept Devastating Blights from U.S. Shores

At this festive time of year, when many people are bringing trees into their homes to decorate for the holidays,... more

19 Dec 2024 · 26 minutes
Lost Women of Science Conversations - Brave the Wild River

Two female botanists – Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter – made headlines for riding the rapids of the Colorado River... more

05 Dec 2024 · 30 minutes
Lost Women of the Manhattan Project: Carolyn Beatrice Parker

Carolyn Beatrice Parker came from a family of doctors and academics and worked during World War II as a physicist... more

21 Nov 2024 · 15 minutes
Lost Women of Science Conversations: Attention is Discovery

Anna Von Mertens' thoughtful new exploration of Henrietta Swan Leavitt's life describes and illuminates Leavitt's decades-long study of stars, including... more

14 Nov 2024 · 28 minutes
Finding Dora Richardson: The Forgotten Developer of Tamoxifen, a Lifesaving Breast Cancer Therapy - Episode Two

Although initial clinical trials of tamoxifen as a treatment of breast cancer were positive, Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) did not... more

31 Oct 2024 · 36 minutes
Finding Dora Richardson - The Forgotten Developer of Tamoxifen

In the early 1960s, chemist Dr. Dora Richardson synthesized a chemical compound that became one of the most important drugs... more

24 Oct 2024 · 41 minutes