Dale DeBakcsy
Making All Nurses Equal: The Many Battles of Estelle Massey Osborne
In 1923, when Estelle Massey graduated from the City Hospital No. 2 School of Nursing with the highest examination score in the entire...
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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 25, 2023
Ancient Secrets, Modern Methods: Nobel Laureate Tu Youyou, Malaria, and the Discovery of Artemisinin
In 1955, the World Health Organization had what, on the surface, seemed a splendid idea: Let’s Get Rid of Malaria. Just four years...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 25, 2023
Isabel Morgan, Polio, and the High Cost of Marriage
Polio, unique among humanity’s eradicated diseases, carries with it a visual familiarity that has insistently lingered far beyond its...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 25, 2023
Varieties: The Life and Mathematics of Hanna Neumann.
Of all the realms of mathematics, there are few where more people feel more at home than in the safe harbours of algebra. From the age of...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 25, 2023
Impossible Creatures and How to Make Them: The Topological Legacy of Mathematician Mary Ellen Rudin
There’s a lot to like about plain old, everyday space. No matter where you are, there’s always a way to get to where you need to go, and...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 25, 2023
Emmy Noether Solves the Universe
‘Momentum is always conserved, except when it isn’t.’ In secondary school physics, we learn all manner of conservation laws, one at a...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 25, 2023
Fearless Symmetry: Dorothy Wrinch and the Founding of Mathematical Biochemistry
By attempting everything, Dorothy Wrinch ended up accomplishing nothing. For half a century, this was the standard final verdict on the...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 25, 2023
Expectations Defied: The Algebraic Journey of Raman Parimala
If you have been reading this series over the years, you’re used to a particular narrative sequence: (1) Brilliant woman researcher...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 25, 2023
Letting Loose the Dogs of Chaos: Mary Lucy Cartwright’s Pioneering Portrayals of Functions Behaving
Our concept of living in a universe with a knowable and predictable future has taken two stunning blows in the last century, first from...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 25, 2023
Equilibrium States: Tatyana Alexeyevna Ehrenfest-Afanassjewa and Statistical Mechanics.
Whereas few European scientists escaped the politico-intellectual gnash of the 1930s unscathed, arguably none faced quite the looming...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 25, 2023
Non-Linear: How Mathematical Lone Wolf Karen Uhlenbeck Found Her Pack
When you first walk into secondary school your first year and plop yourself nervously into a desk in the back of your geometry class...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 25, 2023
Trajectories: Katherine Johnson’s Orbital Mathematics
Before NASA, there was NACA, an oddball collection of aeronautics nerds using black box data and wind tunnel analysis to figure out as...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 25, 2023
Hilda Geiringer and the Curious Behavior of Stressed Metals
Beholding a bar of metal, it seems an object almost primal in its simplicity. Solid, reliable, the stuff of which cities are made. Peek...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 25, 2023
Spherical Triangles and Domineering Males: The Saga of Grace Chisholm Young
When Grace Chisholm, at age 28, married the mathematician William Henry Young, she had every prospect of a brilliant career before her....
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 25, 2023
The Early Days of IBM at NASA: Evelyn Boyd Granville.
The IBM 650 was a marvellous beast. The world’s first mass-produced (and first profitable) computer, it was the mainstay machine of the...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 25, 2023
In Defense of the Soil: One Century with Hydrodynamic Mathematician Pelageya Polubarinova-Kochina
Water is that great, terrible thing. Its chemical properties make it a magnificent solvent and coolant, which is wonderful if you’re...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 25, 2023
Maria Winkelmann and the Guilded Age of Astronomy
Back in the age when historians favored hard and fast lines between different Eras of world history, 1543 stood as the gold standard...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 25, 2023
An ER Doctor in Space: The Story of Astronaut Rhea Seddon
The first astronaut class to include women candidates, announced in 1978 and self-dubbed the TFNG, or Thirty-Five New Guys, brought six...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 25, 2023
Space Biomedical Engineer Mamta Patel Nagaraja, the Woman Behind Women@NASA
When it comes finally time to settle Mars, the most terrifying sound might not be *RRRIP* or ‘I'‘m sorry, Dave, I don'‘t WANT to turn the...
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