Christine Ladd-Franklin is best known for her theory of the evolution of color vision, but her research spanned math, symbolic... more

There's a test that we at Lost Women of Science seem to fail again and again: the Finkbeiner Test. Named for the science... more

Today we tell the story of Mária Telkes, one of the developers of solar thermal storage systems, who was so... more

In 1856, decades before the term “greenhouse gas” was coined, Eunice Newton Foote demonstrated the greenhouse effect in her home... more

Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler, born in 1831, was the first African American female medical doctor in the U.S. and is... more

In the 1960s, a Black home economist at Howard University recruited kids for an experimental preschool program. All were Black... more

Harriet Jane Lawrence was one of the first female pathologists in the U.S. In the early 1900s she worked in... more

Known as “America’s first female cryptanalyst,” Elizebeth Smith Friedman was a master codebreaker who played a pivotal role in both... more

Christine Essenberg had an unusual life and an unusual career trajectory. She was married, then divorced, and earned her PhD... more

Born in 1850, Sarah Loguen found her calling as a child, when she helped her parents and Harriet Tubman bandage... more