Dale DeBakcsy
The Ice Woman: Mary Engle Pennington’s Revolutionary World of Refrigeration.
In the early 20th century, buying and consuming food of any sort in an urban center was a fraught proposition, particularly in the days...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 27, 2023
Our Endogenous Retroviruses, Ourselves: The Life and Legacy of Anna Marie Skalka
In 1970, everybody knew, or believed they did, how the flow of genetic information in a cell works. The Central Dogma of genetics...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 27, 2023
Jeanne Baret: The Two Stories of the World’s First Woman to Circumnavigate the Globe.
Told one way, the story of Jeanne Baret is an essentially inspiring tale: a woman born a peasant, raised with the expectation of seeing...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 27, 2023
Return to Nature: Stella Brewer and the Science Of Chimpanzee Rehabilitation.
Our interactions with our closest relatives in the animal kingdom, the chimpanzees, have rarely been entirely honorable. We dress them up...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 27, 2023
Neuroembryology in Wartime: Rita Levi-Montalcini and the Discovery of Nerve Growth Factor
It is 1942, and Allied bombs are raking the city of Turin, wreaking a thudding vengeance for Il Duce’s cynical alliance with Nazi Germany....
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 25, 2023
Fearless Symmetry: Dorothy Wrinch and the Founding of Mathematical Biochemistry
By attempting everything, Dorothy Wrinch ended up accomplishing nothing. For half a century, this was the standard final verdict on the...
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