Dale DeBakcsy
Helen Dick Megaw and the Dynamic Lives of Inorganic Molecules.
In 1941, the first patent was filed for a hot new product that stood to revolutionize the electronics field - it was a capacitor that...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Jul 8
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 16
Broken 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...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Jan 28
From Quaker Crystallographer to World War Pacifist: The Journey of Kathleen Lonsdale
The list of Quaker women who made fundamental contributions to the science of crystallography while in prison is a short one. In fact,...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Jan 20
Marie-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,...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Nov 7, 2023
The Unstoppable Marie Curie
You 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...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Aug 24, 2023
Fighting 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...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Aug 17, 2023
The 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...
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Dale DeBakcsy
May 1, 2023
Clean Water, Breathable Air, and the Science of Food: The Remarkable Legacy of Ellen Swallow
Every 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...
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