The 5 Best Lost Women of Science Podcast Episodes
1) The Devil in the Details - Chapter One
In this first chapter of a new five-part season we meet Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey, a physician and pharmacologist who joined the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as a medical reviewer in 1960. Before...Show More
2) 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 to have a successful career as a pediatric cardiologist. For decades, she remained silent a...Show More
3) LWoS Shorts: A Complicated Woman: Leona Zacharias
Scientist Leona Zacharias was a rare woman. She graduated from Barnard College in 1927 with a degree in biology, followed by a Ph.D. from Columbia University. But throughout her career she labored beh...Show More
4) Lost Women of Science Conversations - Brave the Wild River
Two female botanists – Elzada Clover and Louis Jotter – made headlines for riding the rapids of the Colorado River in 1938 in an effort to document the Grand Canyon’s plant life. In Brave the Wild Riv...Show More
5) Season 1 The Pathologist in the Basement: Trailer
When Dr. Dorothy Andersen confronted a slew of confounding infant deaths, she knew the accepted diagnosis couldn’t be right. Her medical detective work led to our current understanding of Cystic Fibro...Show More
6) Layers of Brilliance: The Breakthrough - Episode Four
The 1930s prove to be an exceptional decade for research at The General Electric Company. Katharine Burr Blodgett works closely alongside her boss, Irving Langmuir who, in 1932, wins the Nobel Prize f...Show More
7) Layers of Brilliance: The Air She Breathed -- Episode Three
The only woman in a laboratory filled with men, Katharine Burr Blodgett soon becomes indispensable as an assistant to The General Electric Company’s most famous scientist, Irving Langmuir. Their worki...Show More
8) Layers of Brilliance: The 'House of Magic' -- Episode Two
Katharine Burr Blodgett arrives at The General Electric Company’s legendary research laboratory in Schenectady, New York, known as the “House of Magic.” She was just 20 years old when she entered a wo...Show More
9) Layers of Brilliance: The Chemical Genius of Katharine Burr Blodgett - Episode One
In the first of this five-part season we trace Katharine’s early years as she picks up European languages, her early scientific education at a progressive New York school for girls and then Bryn Mawr,...Show More
10) Layers of Brilliance
Introducing Layers of Brilliance, a five-part season that brings to life the story of a woman whose discoveries in materials science quietly shape our everyday world – but whose legacy was long eclips...Show More