Dale DeBakcsy
Two Roads Diverged: Marietta Blau, Hertha Wambacher, and the Great Cosmic Ray Chase.
Untold billions of miles away, a star explodes, and violently ejects barrages of hydrogen and helium atoms into the universe at speeds...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Oct 20, 2023
Making the Gradient: Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard and the Mysteries of Embryo Development
How is it that, starting from a single fertilized egg, employing only mechanical processes, you can form a kangaroo, a housefly, or a...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Jun 16, 2023
A Shadow Falls: Barbara McClintock and the Twisting Tale of Jumping Genes
In 1983, Evelyn Fox Keller published her biography of Barbara McClintock, A Feeling for the Organism. At the time, biographies of women...
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Dale DeBakcsy
May 23, 2023
Quantizing the Nucleus: Maria Goeppert-Mayer and the Creation of Nuclear Shell Theory
How does radioactive decay know when to stop? When Uranium-238 breaks up, it goes through twenty-two intermediate isotopes before...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 25, 2023
The Secret Life of Hormones: Rosalyn Yalow and the Discovery Of Radioimmunoassaying
There is an unsung immensity in the craft of Measuring Things Better. Within our sparkling cleverness for developing better and better...
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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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