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En cada uno de nuestros episodios, contamos la historia de una mujer científica olvidada, explorando su vida y su trabajo y finalmente brindándole el reconocimiento que merece. Ya sea que te guste la paleontología, la aeronáutica, la bioquímica o la astrofísica, aquí hay una historia para ti.
Best Of: Finding Dora Richardson, The Forgotten Developer of Tamoxifen, a Lifesaving Breast Cancer Therapy - Episode Two

When ICI decided to terminate the breast cancer research, the team went underground.

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Best Of: Finding Dora Richardson – The Forgotten Developer of Tamoxifen, a Lifesaving Breast Cancer Therapy - Episode One

Her name was on the patent for tamoxifen, but Dora Richardson’s story was completely lost until now.

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Opening Doors to Computer Science

Carla Brodley, founder of the Center for Inclusive Computing at Northeastern University, explains how to make computer science education more accessible to everyone.

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Coming Soon: All the archival and resource materials that we have collected for each of our episode!

October 2, 2023

Why the ‘Mother of the Atomic Bomb’ Never Won a Nobel Prize

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September 7, 2024

Lost Women of Science Podcast Reveals the Untold Story of Why Physicist Lise Meitner Was Denied the Nobel Prize for Her Pioneering Work on Splitting the Atom

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August 10, 2023

Female scientists who worked on A-bomb mostly absent from ‘Oppenheimer’

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July 13, 2023

Who Was Alessandra Giliani, 14th Century Teen Anatomist?

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July 13, 2023

Lost Women of the Manhattan Project Press Release

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May 18, 2024

Women Are Credited Less in Science Than Men

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May 9, 2023

Rosalind Franklin and Unsung Women in Science

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March 29, 2023

Lost Women of Science Launches Fifth Podcast Season

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