When you got dressed this morning, did you put on something cotton that you didn’t have to iron and it was still presentable? That modern convenience is thanks to chemistry and the work of Dr. Ruth Benerito.
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Driven to become a scientist by a love of labs, the building of things with one’s own hands, and learning what no one else knows; neurobiologist Cornelia Bargmann uses simple roundworms to study complex neuron pathways.
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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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This native of the United States capitol had a life devoted to service in the fields of education and social reform.
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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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Today we’re celebrating the birthday of a woman that Einstein called a “creative mathematical genius,” Emmy Noether.
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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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