Dale DeBakcsy
An ER Doctor in Space: The Story of Astronaut Rhea Seddon
The first astronaut class to include women candidates, announced in 1978 and self-dubbed the TFNG, or Thirty-Five New Guys, brought six...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 25, 2023
Space Biomedical Engineer Mamta Patel Nagaraja, the Woman Behind Women@NASA
When it comes finally time to settle Mars, the most terrifying sound might not be *RRRIP* or ‘I'‘m sorry, Dave, I don'‘t WANT to turn the...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 22, 2023
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, the Discovery of HIV, and the Fight Against AIDS
Pandemics. Having raised their heads every century or so to spread primal panic and horror on a continental scale, they were something we...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 22, 2023
Killer of Cancer, Slayer of Viruses: The Many Medicines of Nobel Prize Laureate Gertrude Elion
Generally, our experience of a particular medicine is as a great faceless thing the name of which we do not know until we desperately...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 22, 2023
The Experimentalist: The Tale of Mary Putnam Jacobi vs. Proper Victorian Medicine
As we have seen, the nineteenth century boasts a rich roster of medical women, any one of whom is the stuff of heroes: the trailblazing...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 19, 2023
The Woman of a Thousand Brains: Augusta Déjerine-Klumpke, Pioneer Neuroscientist.
The brain is ready. It luxuriated in a solution of potassium bicarbonate for a year, and then in a thick mixture of nitrocellulose for...
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