This month marks an important milestone for Lost Women of Science. We’ve hit one million podcast downloads!
We want to thank you, our listeners, and everyone on the Lost Women of Science team - producers, engineers, marketing/promotional team, administrative staff, our Advisory Board, and our wonderful funders.
And of course, thank you to all the wonderful female scientists whose stories we have told. It’s been a terrific journey. And keep listening! There are so many more great female scientists to celebrate!
Dr. Dorothy Andersen’s role in groundbreaking cystic fibrosis research fails to get the recognition it deserves. Our associate producer, Sophie McNulty, rummages through boxes in a Connecticut basement, looking for clues to Dorothy Andersen’s life story.
Pediatric critical care physician Dr. John Scott Baird, who published a biography of Dorothy Andersen in 2021, suggests we take a second look at the conventional wisdom surrounding the evolution of cystic fibrosis research in the 1950s.
And in this updated episode, we interview science historian Margaret Rossiter, who coined the term “Matilda Effect” to describe how credit for work done by female scientists too often goes to their male colleagues, and examine how this affected Dorothy Andersen and her groundbreaking research into cystic fibrosis.
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Each episode tells the story of one lost woman of science.
A new series in which we interview authors, working scientists, science journalists, filmmakers, artists, even poets.
Thousands of scientists worked on the Manhattan project, the top secret push to develop an atomic bomb that would end World War II. Hundreds of those scientists were women.
Introducing From Our Inbox, episodes in which we give you a snippet of an earful created from suggestions that come from our listeners.
In these episodes, we bring you Marie Nywander's story and the radical treatment that would upend the landscape of addiction for decades to come.
Yvonne Y. Clark, known as Y.Y. throughout her career, made groundbreaking achievements as a Black female mechanical engineer.
The first modern-style code executed on a computer was written in the 1940s by a woman named Klára Dán von Neumann–or Klári to her family and friends.
Listen to our inaugural episodes about Dorothy Andersen, a physician and pathologist who solved a medical mystery when she identified and defined cystic fibrosis in 1938.