Dale DeBakcsy
The Lady of the Engine Room: Victoria Drummond, Britain’s First Woman Marine Engineer.
It is August 25, 1940, and the Panamanian ship Bonita, sailing alone in war-torn waters with its cargo of clay bound for the United...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Oct 9, 2023
The Billion Roads from Here to There: The Graph Theory Combinatorics of Fan Chung
‘Well, some go this way, some go that way. But as for me, myself, personally, I prefer the short-cut.’ – The Cheshire Cat Every morning...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Sep 24, 2023
Making Women Physicians: Marie Zakrzewska and the Creation of the New England Hospital for Women
I wish to say farewell to all those who thought of me as a friend, to all those who were kind to me, assuring them all that the deep...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Sep 19, 2023
Engineering at the Epicenter: Ruth Gordon Schnapp, California's First Woman Structural Engineer.
In the year 1933, the Long Beach Earthquake bore down on Southern California with the fury of revelation. At 6.4, it was not the largest...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Sep 10, 2023
A Life in Service to the Birds: America’s Pioneering Woman Ornithologist, Florence Merriam Bailey
In the late eighteenth century, it would have been not at all unusual to run into a woman on the streets of New York wearing upon her...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Sep 7, 2023
Breaking Neutral: The Population Genetics of Tomoko Ohta
We are all mutants, our genes loaded with the steadily acquired variations of three billion years that gradually changed a collection of...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Aug 30, 2023
The Enemy is Ignorance: Marine Biologist Sylvia Earle Speaks for the Oceans.
One of the most consistently frustrating things about humanity is our blithe willingness to allow all manner of industrially organized...
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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 21, 2023
Beyond Nature Vs. Nurture: Marian Cleeves Diamond and Leda Cosmides
In 1964, two publications announced the beginning of two roads out of the centuries-long quagmire represented by the Nature Versus...
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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
Aug 10, 2023
Leona Marshall Libby and the American Atomic Bomb.
Leona Woods (1919-1986) was only 23 years old, fresh from wrapping up her PhD work in spectroscopy in the basement of the University of...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Aug 9, 2023
Dr. Tania Singer and the Neuroscience of Empathy
The year is 1990 and a man is sitting across from a monkey. Between them is an object that will, in mere moments, become the Raisin Heard...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Aug 3, 2023
Summing the Natural Order: The Taxonomy and Ornithology of Graceanna Lewis, Quaker.
In the mid 19th century, American biological science was tentatively feeling its way forward along a half dozen different and...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Jul 28, 2023
Mushrooms, Fossils, and a Pen to Draw Them With: Beatrix Potter, Naturalist.
"I don't know what to write to you, so I shall tell you a story about four little rabbits whose names were Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail and...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Jul 21, 2023
Children are People: The Life and Science of Anna Freud
Humans have a profound genius for generating terrible ideas. Slavery. Theocratic government. But there is one particular idea we hung...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Jul 21, 2023
A History of Women in Mathematics Gets Release Date!
Mark your calendars! The third book in my Trailblazers of Women in STEM series for Pen & Sword Books, A History of Women in Mathematics,...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Jul 17, 2023
A Scientist Takes the Helm: The Story of German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
In 1989, Angela Merkel was a quantum chemist with a respectable reputation for applying statistical mathematics to chemical analysis. In...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Jul 8, 2023
Where Sex Begins: The Chromosomal Investigations of Nettie Stevens.
If you were to ask an ancient Greek how it is determined that a baby is born a boy or a girl, they would have had some interesting and...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Jul 2, 2023
Wither: The Many Triumphs and Long Fall of Nuclear Physicist Harriet Brooks.
Reading the life of Harriet Brooks is like watching the gradual, inevitable unfolding of a horror movie. There's that same idyllic,...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Jun 29, 2023
Come Together? Inez Prosser and the Psychological Impact of Mixed Schooling Systems.
Many Hopes Lie Buried Here. These words, etched on the tomb of Inez Prosser (~1895-1934) express an entire constellation of grief and...
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