physics
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Of Artificial Radiation and Natural Genius: The Chemistry of Irène Joliot-Curie (Women In Science 29)
Radioactivity is a great thing. Terrible, but great. The medical applications of radioactively tagged molecules, as Rosalyn Yalow proved,…
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Queen of Carbon: The Ongoing Materials Science Legacy Of Mildred Dresselhaus (Women In Science 27)
Carbon. Its astounding versatility is matched only by our total and historic complacency in the face of its wonders.…
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A Tale of Physics, Betrayal, and Art: The World Premiere of Delicate Particle Logic
It has been 70 years since nuclear fission co-discoverer Lise Meitner was passed over for the Nobel Prize, and for…
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Trades… Of… Science! FBP: Federal Bureau of Physics, Volume 1.
Quantum tornados, localized time dilation, and fluctuating gravity are the workaday business of the Federal Bureau of Physics, a governmental…
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The Secret Life of Hormones: Rosalyn Yalow and the Discovery of Radioimmunoassaying
There’s an unsung immensity in the craft of Measuring Things Better. Within our twisting cleverness for developing better and better…
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ATLAS Soared: Fabiola Gianotti and the Discovery of a Higgs Particle (Women In Science 19)
In a corner of a room, tucked unostentatiously away from the notice of the raving hordes of just barely contained…
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The Science of Bubbles + Bubble Universe Cocktail
This post is based on a demonstration I gave in the Skepchick Space Lab at CONvergence 2014 on the science…
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Mary Somerville: Savior of British Mathematics.
In the 1750s, when France was foundering scientifically in the Cartesian shallows, it took Emilie du Châtelet’s French translation of…
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