Themes and summary (AI-generated based on podcaster-provided show and episode descriptions):
➤ Unsung female scientists • Historical contributions • Overlooked legacies • Gender bias • Ecological restoration • Medicine and pathology • Mathematics • Language and cognition • Physics and astronomy • Ethical dilemmas in science
This podcast, "Lost Women of Science," delves into the compelling stories of female scientists whose significant contributions have largely been overlooked due to historical, social, and gender biases. The show features a diverse array of women across various fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Each season focuses on a different scientist, meticulously placing her achievements within both scientific and historical contexts.
The podcast illuminates the lives and works of scientists such as botanists, pathologists, astronomers, physicists, cognitive scientists, and more. It highlights those who worked alongside famous male counterparts, often without recognition, and explores the challenges they faced due to their gender. For instance, stories about early botanists bring attention to forgotten networks of female knowledge-sharing, while episodes featuring cognitive scientists and physicists navigate their contributions to disciplines ranging from language acquisition to nuclear physics.
Recurring themes include the struggle for recognition, the impact of societal norms on women's educational and professional opportunities, and the moral and ethical considerations these women navigated in their work. The podcast also addresses the "Matilda Effect," where women’s scientific contributions are frequently attributed to their male colleagues. Some episodes revisit the lives of women who were involved in pivotal historical events, like the Manhattan Project or the development of critical medical treatments, illustrating how their work has had long-lasting impacts.
By intertwining personal anecdotes, biographical details, and professional achievements, this podcast offers a comprehensive look at how these women persevered in their fields. It aims to bring their untold stories to light, demonstrating the enduring relevance of their contributions to the present day.
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Episodes:
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Chemistry Professor and Crime Buster: The Remarkable Life of Mary Louisa Willard
2024-Jun-27
30 minutes
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Lost Women of Science Conversations: Wild By Design
2024-Jun-13
26 minutes
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Revisiting The Pathologist in the Basement: Episode 4 Breakfast in the Snow
2024-May-30
42 minutes
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Revisiting the Pathologist in the Basement: Episode 3 The Case of the Missing Portrait
2024-May-23
29 minutes
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Revisiting the Pathologist in the Basement: Episode 2 The Matilda Effect
2024-May-16
44 minutes
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Revisiting the Pathologist in the Basement
2024-May-09
31 minutes
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Lost Women of Science Conversations: Mathematics for Ladies
2024-May-02
26 minutes
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Elizabeth Bates and the Search for the Roots of Human Language
2024-Apr-25
37 minutes
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The Theoretical Physicist Who Worked With J. Robert Oppenheimer at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age
2024-Apr-18
30 minutes
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Best Of: The Highest of All Ceilings, Astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
2024-Apr-11
29 minutes
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The Victorian Woman Who Chased Eclipses
2024-Apr-04
30 minutes
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Lost Women of Science Conversations: Mischievous Creatures
2024-Mar-28
25 minutes
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The Cognitive Scientist Who Unraveled the Mysteries of Language
2024-Mar-21
16 minutes
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Best Of: Meet the Physicist who Spoke Out Against the Bomb She Helped Create
2024-Mar-14
23 minutes
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How Lilian Bland Built Herself A Plane
2024-Mar-07
39 minutes
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Lost Women of Science Conversations: The Black Angels
2024-Feb-29
27 minutes
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The Industrial Designer Behind the N95 Mask
2024-Feb-15
12 minutes
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The Universe in Radio Vision
2024-Feb-08
28 minutes
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From Our Inbox: Forgotten Electrical Engineer’s Work Paved the Way for Radar Technology
2024-Feb-01
15 minutes
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Best of: A Complicated Woman, Leona Zacharias
2024-Jan-25
37 minutes
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From Our Inbox: Vera Peters - The Doctor Who Helped Spare Women From Radical Mastectomy
2024-Jan-11
12 minutes
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Adventures of a Bone Hunter
2024-Jan-04
32 minutes
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Emma Unson Rotor: The Filipina Physicist Who Helped Develop a Top Secret Weapon
2023-Dec-14
20 minutes
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Flapper of the South Seas: A Young Margaret Mead Travels To The South Seas
2023-Dec-07
26 minutes
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The Devastating Logic of Christine Ladd-Franklin
2023-Nov-30
27 minutes
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Best Of: The Feminist Test We Keep Failing
2023-Nov-23
21 minutes
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From Our Inbox: Mária Telkes, The Biophysicist Who Harnessed Solar Power
2023-Nov-16
11 minutes
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The Woman Who Demonstrated the Greenhouse Effect
2023-Nov-09
31 minutes
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Dr. Rebecca Crumpler, America's First Black Female Public Health Pioneer
2023-Nov-02
34 minutes
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Flemmie Kittrell and the Preschool Experiment
2023-Oct-26
36 minutes
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From Our Inbox: A Microbe Hunter in Oregon Fights the 1918 Influenza Pandemic
2023-Oct-19
11 minutes
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The English Lit Major Who Cracked Nazi Codes
2023-Oct-12
35 minutes
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Who was Christine Essenberg? A remarkable zoologist almost lost to history
2023-Oct-05
29 minutes
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Dr. Sarah Loguen Fraser, an ex-slave’s daughter, becomes a celebrated doctor
2023-Sep-28
31 minutes
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A Flair for Efficiency: The Woman Who Redesigned the American Kitchen
2023-Sep-21
34 minutes
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Part 2: Why Did Lise Meitner Never Receive the Nobel Prize for Splitting the Atom?
2023-Sep-14
26 minutes
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Part 1: Why Did Lise Meitner Never Receive the Nobel Prize for Splitting the Atom?
2023-Sep-07
26 minutes
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They Remembered the Lost Women of the Manhattan Project So That We Wouldn't Forget
2023-Aug-31
11 minutes
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Meet the Physicist who Spoke Out Against the Bomb She Helped Create
2023-Aug-24
21 minutes
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The Story of the Real Lilli Hornig, the Only Female Scientist Named in the Film Oppenheimer
2023-Aug-17
18 minutes
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No Place for a Woman in Mathematics? The Woman Who Ended up Supervising The Computations that Proved an Atomic Bomb Would Work
2023-Aug-03
15 minutes
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Blood, Sweat, and Fears: The Story of Floy Agnes Lee, the Young Woman Who Analyzed the Blood of Manhattan Project Scientists
2023-Jul-27
14 minutes
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One of Many Lost Women of the Manhattan Project: Leona Woods Marshall Libby
2023-Jul-20
11 minutes
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Women of the Manhattan Project: Trailer
2023-Jul-13
1 minute
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From Our Inbox: Alessandra Giliani, 14th-century Italian anatomist
2023-Jul-06
7 minutes
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The Highest of All Ceilings: Astronomer Cecilia Payne
2023-Jun-22
29 minutes
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What's in a Street Name? Everything.
2023-Jun-01
19 minutes
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The Doctor and the Fix: Chapter 5
2023-May-04
35 minutes
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Reminder about next episode and an update
2023-Apr-27
less than a minute
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The Doctor and the Fix: Chapter 4
2023-Apr-20
38 minutes
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The Doctor and the Fix: Chapter 3
2023-Apr-13
34 minutes
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The Doctor and the Fix: Chapter 2
2023-Apr-06
27 minutes
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The Doctor and the Fix: Chapter 1
2023-Mar-30
28 minutes
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The Doctor and the Fix: Trailer
2023-Mar-16
1 minute
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Of Chestnuts, Cherry Trees, and Mushroom Catsup: Flora Patterson, the Woman who Kept Devastating Blights from U.S. Shores
2023-Jan-26
24 minutes
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A Complicated Woman: Leona Zacharias
2023-Jan-12
35 minutes
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Introducing Lost Women of Science Shorts: Trailer
2023-Jan-05
1 minute
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The Woman Who Knocked Science Sideways
2022-Dec-01
27 minutes
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The Feminist Test We Keep Failing
2022-Nov-17
21 minutes
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The First Lady of Engineering: An Interview with Y.Y.'s Daughter, Carol Lawson
2022-Nov-03
34 minutes
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The First Lady of Engineering: Chapter 4
2022-Oct-13
39 minutes
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The First Lady of Engineering: Chapter 3
2022-Oct-06
37 minutes
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The First Lady of Engineering: Chapter 2
2022-Sep-29
35 minutes
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The First Lady of Engineering: Chapter 1
2022-Sep-22
34 minutes
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The First Lady of Engineering: Trailer
2022-Sep-08
1 minute
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Meet our new cohost!
2022-Sep-01
1 minute
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A Grasshopper in Tall Grass: The Weather Myth
2022-Jun-02
26 minutes
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A Grasshopper in Tall Grass: Chapter 5
2022-Apr-28
30 minutes
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A Grasshopper in Tall Grass: Chapter 4
2022-Apr-21
40 minutes
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A Grasshopper in Tall Grass: Chapter 3
2022-Apr-14
37 minutes
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A Grasshopper in Tall Grass: Chapter 2
2022-Apr-07
40 minutes
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A Grasshopper in Tall Grass: Chapter 1
2022-Mar-31
37 minutes
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A Grasshopper in Very Tall Grass: Trailer
2022-Mar-17
2 minutes
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The Pathologist in the Basement: The Resignation
2021-Dec-23
26 minutes
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The Pathologist in the Basement: Chapter 4
2021-Nov-25
37 minutes
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The Pathologist in the Basement: Chapter 3
2021-Nov-18
28 minutes
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The Pathologist in the Basement: Chapter 2
2021-Nov-11
38 minutes
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The Pathologist in the Basement: Chapter 1
2021-Nov-04
31 minutes
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The Pathologist in the Basement: Trailer
2021-Oct-20
3 minutes
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Lost Women of Science: Trailer
2021-Oct-14
1 minute
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