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Corralling the Light Elements: The Nuclear Spectroscopy of Fay Ajzenberg-Selove (Women in Science 41)
In the opening days of the Nazi attack on France, a Jewish engineer took his family aside and instructed them…
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Quantizing the Nucleus: Maria Goeppert-Mayer and the Creation of Nuclear Shell Theory (Women in Science 40)
How does radioactive decay know when to stop? When Uranium-238 breaks up, it goes through twenty-two intermediate isotopes before finally…
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Lymph, There It Is: Florence Sabin, Pioneer Woman of Medical Research (Women in Science 39)
For women in science, posterity has three fates in store. Some, like Marie Curie or Rosalyn Yalow, are recognized in…
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Computing Venus: The Astronomy of Maria Mitchell (Women in Science 38)
In the early nineteenth century nothing about the island of Nantucket made sense. It was simultaneously a hotbed of Quakerism…
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Gerty Radnitz Cori: Glycogen to Glucose, and Back Again (Women in Science 37)
For a science teacher, perhaps the most dreaded question is “What Is Energy?” Sure, we have a standard answer –…
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Women in Science: The Next Generation. Featuring Lauren Uhde and Her Amazing Friends! (Women In Science 36)
For the past thirty-five episodes of Women in Science, the key word has been Bleak. We have seen a startling…
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Grace Hopper and the Democratization of Computer Programming (Women in Science 35)
In a room across the hall from where I teach, a group of a dozen kids between the ages of…
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Belle Benchley and the Creation of the Modern Zoo (Women in Science 34)
Think back to your last zoo trip. More likely than not, most of the larger animals were contained in open…
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