In The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science Dava Sobel... more

After Evangelina Rodríguez Perozo died in 1947, the Trujillo regime did its best to erase her legacy, while at the... more

Tras la muerte de Evangelina Rodríguez Perozo en 1947, el régimen de Trujillo hizo todo lo posible no solo por... more

En 1930, Rafael Leónidas Trujillo toma el poder en la República Dominicana e instaura un reino de terror. El controvertido... more

In 1930, Rafael Leónidas Trujillo seized power in the Dominican Republic and introduced a reign of terror. Evangelina’s controversial work... more

Evangelina recibió una calurosa bienvenida de regreso a su país, y se pone a trabajar de inmediato, introduciendo sus nuevas... more

Evangelina got a warm welcome on her return from Paris and went straight to work, introducing her new ideas about... more

Devastated by the death of her mentor following childbirth, Evangelina decided to devote her life to women’s health. It took... more

Devastada por la muerte de su mentora, ocurrida tras un parto, Evangelina decidió dedicar su vida a la salud de... more

A finales de la década de 1890, Andrea Evangelina Rodríguez Perozo era una de las tantas niñas pobres luchando por... more

In the late 1890s, Andrea Evangelina Rodríguez Perozo, known as Evangelina, was just another poor girl trying to survive in... more

En la década de 1880, una pequeña niña Afro-Dominicana pasaba sus días vendiendo dulces en las calles de San Pedro... more

In the 1880s, a small Afro-Dominican girl spent her days selling sweets on the streets of San Pedro de Macorís,... more

Lisa See’s novel Lady Tan’s Circle of Women is inspired by a medical textbook published in 1511  by an eminent... more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

While researching her book about thalidomide in America, Jennifer Vanderbes discovered that there were far more survivors in the U.S.... more

It’s September 2024 and a group of American thalidomide survivors arrive in Washington D.C. to lobby the government for support.... more

It’s the summer of 1962 and thalidomide has been off the market in Europe for months. But in the U.S.,... more

It’s 1961 and Widukind Lenz, a German pediatrician, is going door to door in his efforts to find out what... more

It’s the early 1960s and the German pharmaceutical market is booming. A sedative called Contergan is one of the bestselling... more

In this first chapter of a new five-part season we meet Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey, a physician and pharmacologist who... more

In the 1950s, a German drug company developed a new sedative that was supposed to be 100% safe: thalidomide. So... more

In the 1920s, when newspapers and magazines started to showcase stories about science, many of the early science journalists were... more

By the second half of the 20th century, physicists were on a mission to find the ultimate building blocks of... more

Dr. Jess Wade is a physicist at Imperial College London who’s made it her mission to write and update the... more

Dr. Nancy Hopkins, a molecular biologist who made major discoveries in cancer genetics, became an unlikely activist in her early... more

“The only time I ever saw something that I thought was abnormal…there was a human arm in the refrigerator,” said... more

When Laura J. Martin decided to write a history of ecological restoration, she didn’t think she would have to go... more

In our final episode, we explore Dorothy Andersen’s legacy — what she left behind and how her work has lived... more

The missing portrait of Dr. Andersen takes us on a journey into the perils of memorialization and who gets to... more

Our associate producer, Sophie McNulty, rummages through boxes in a Connecticut basement, looking for clues to Dorothy Andersen’s life story.... more

A few important things have happened in the three years since we first aired The Pathologist in the Basement, the... more

When poet Jessy Randall started researching the lives of female scientists she became angry. And we certainly can relate here... more

“We were each put on earth to torment the other,” says cognitive scientist Steven Pinker of Elizabeth Bates, a psychologist... more

Melba Phillips, who grew up on a farm in Indiana at the turn of the 20th century, was one of... more

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was in her early 20s when she figured out what the stars are made of. Both she and... more

The year is 1897 and Annie Maunder, an amateur astronomer, is boarding a steamship bound for India from England. Her... more

In this episode of Lost Women of Science Conversations, Michelle Nijhuis talks to historian Catherine McNeur about how she rediscovered... more

While working at the Salk Institute in California, Ursula Bellugi discovered that sign language was made up of specific building... more

Katharine “Kay” Way was a nuclear physicist who worked at multiple Manhattan Project sites. She was an expert in radioactive... more

“Hoots and derision, which did not worry me at all,” Lilian Bland wrote, describing her visit to an airshow in... more