Dale DeBakcsyApr 16ChemistryBroken Hearts and Nuclear Secrets: Marie Maynard Daly, America's First Black Woman Chemist.The years of the Second World War gifted to American feminism one of its most enduring icons in the form of Rosie the Riveter. She was...
Dale DeBakcsyJan 28ChemistryFrom Quaker Crystallographer to World War Pacifist: The Journey of Kathleen LonsdaleThe list of Quaker women who made fundamental contributions to the science of crystallography while in prison is a short one. In fact,...
Dale DeBakcsyJan 20ChemistryMarie-Anne Lavoisier and the Birth of Modern Chemistry.It is early August in the year 1794, and jails, choked with the enemies of Maximilien Robespierre and his Committee for Public Safety,...
Dale DeBakcsyNov 7, 2023ChemistryThe Unstoppable Marie CurieYou want to see tough? Take a look at this picture of Marie Curie near life’s end. It’s not an image you see a lot, but there is no...
Dale DeBakcsyAug 24, 2023ChemistryFighting Penicillin's Monster: Elizabeth Hazen and Rachel Brown.Who (besides, obviously, bacteria) doesn't love penicillin? It's on everybody's shortlist of the most important things we've discovered...
Dale DeBakcsyAug 17, 2023ChemistryThe Chemistry of Beauty: Hazel Bishop Betrayed.Remember back when I said that botanists were the most under-respected members of the scientific community? Well, that's true until you...
Dale DeBakcsyMay 1, 2023ChemistryClean Water, Breathable Air, and the Science of Food: The Remarkable Legacy of Ellen SwallowEvery morning we wake up to a feast of assumptions. We assume that the place our sewage gets dumped is not the same place our drinking...