Alice Hamilton chose medicine so that she could “be of use anywhere.” She used her skills to help usher in sweeping changes in worker’s safety throughout the U.S.
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To celebrate the discovery of Saturn’s moon Titan, we will meet a former Chief NASA Scientist who had the radical idea to explore Titan – by boat!
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Different areas of the world face a variety of problems with their water supplies, and hydrogeologists like Tess Russo are trying to solve them.
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For World Water Day, we’re learning about a woman who helped use chemistry to bring clean water to the world.
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Antonia Maury was one of the Harvard “computers,” women who were pioneers in astronomy.
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Today we celebrate one of the first female doctors born in Canada was also a pioneer in enzyme kinetics and histochemistry, Maud Leonora Menten.
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On most days, neuroscientist Susana Martinez-Conde works with other scientists. On others, she’s teaming up with magicians and sleight of hand experts.
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Dr. Fitzgerald and her team are working to understand how dysregulation of innate immunity underlies the pathogenesis of infectious, inflammatory and autoimmune disease in humans.
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Caroline Herschel discovered eight comets, and was the first professional female astronomer.
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Dr. Sunetra Gupta is an epidemiologist and a novelist, excelling in both science and art.
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