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
Aug 31
The Two Montessoris: The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of an Educational Revolution.
Had Maria Montessori died in 1913 at age 43, at the height of her fame and insight, this would be a pretty straightforward article about...
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Aug 17
The Electric Home: Caroline Haslett and the Rise of the Women's Engineering Society.
1919 was a year of promise born of misery. Between the ravages of influenza and the indiscriminate trench carnage of the First World...
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Aug 9
The Fibers of Life: Pauline Mack and the Science of What We Put In, and On, Our Bodies.
We can be a heedless species. We daily expose ourselves to wear and tear both from the environment and our own actions that take their...
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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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Jun 11
Probing the Ultraviolet: The Spectroscopic Marvels of Emma Perry Carr
In its externals the life of Emma Carr (1880-1972) bears many similarities to that of fellow physicist Margaret Maltby (1860-1944). Both...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Jun 10
Sex After Sixty: The Geriatric Gynecology of Anna Kleegman Daniels.
Sex after menopause. Drug addiction. Abortion. In the early to mid-twentieth century, to be seen as casting an understanding eye on any...
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Dale DeBakcsy
May 29
Against the Current: Margaret Eliza Maltby and the Fight for Women in Physics.
An American woman hoping to make her way in science in the 19th century carried with her the knowledge that, as soon as she had a child...
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May 13
The Modern Amphitrite: The Many Nautical Revolutions of Janet Taylor.
The nineteenth century saw Great Britain expanding vociferously into new markets, extending its influence, for better or worse, into...
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May 12
The Many Wars of Florence Nightingale.
Though we think of her as the Lady With the Lamp, tirelessly patrolling the sick wards of the Crimean War offering solace and healing to...
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May 6
Queen of the Stone Age: Dorothy Garrod and the Professionalization of Archaeology.
There is a deep seam that lies astride the history of European archaeology - on one side you have the hero-explorers, men and women who...
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May 3
It Came from Teichmüller Space! The All-Too-Brief Mathematical Adventures of Maryam Mirzakhani
A square, who works as a lawyer in the two-dimensional world of Flatland, sits down with his hexagonal grandson: Taking nine squares,...
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May 2
Emma Darwin and the Invisible Heroism of the Scientific Caretaker.
The road leading to the creation and publication of The Origin of the Species was one of the most tortuous and personally costly in the...
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Apr 28
She Sang the Arc Electric: Hertha Marks Ayrton
Sometimes, simplicity dooms. In World War I, chlorine gas hailed down upon the British soldiers trudging through their semi-lives in the...
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Apr 21
The Last Woman Who Knew Everything: The Omnivorous Mind of Clémence Royer.
When Clémence Royer died on February 7, 1902, she took with her into oblivion perhaps the last human brain that believed in and aimed for...
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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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Apr 6
Primal Screams: Sophie Germain’s Mathematical Labours
It is a well-known fact of humanity that the chances of a group of people electing to do something decent and necessary is inversely...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Mar 18
Jeanne Altmann, Baboon Moms, and the Justice League of Primatology.
It is a long standing saying* that the pantheon of primatology is essentially the Justice League of America, with Jane Goodall as...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Mar 5
The Strangers Within: Lynn Margulis and the Rebirth of Endosymbiosis
In terms of cell count, ninety percent of you isn't you at all. Bacteria, though by mass they only make up about two percent of a human...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Mar 1
Raising Nature Girls: How 18th Century Botanist Catharina Helena Dörrien Created Girls' Science Education.
Pondering the Enlightenment, one's thoughts tend to turn Frenchwards. The verbal barbs of Voltaire, the neuroses of Rousseau, the...
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