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Podcast Profile: Lost Women of Science

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136 episodes
2021 to 2025
Median: 28 minutes
Collection: Science

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The podcast "Lost Women of Science" explores the overlooked contributions of female scientists whose stories have largely been forgotten. Each season generally focuses on a different scientist or theme, providing an in-depth look at the historical, social, and scientific circumstances surrounding their work. The episodes aim to illuminate the lives of a diverse array of female pioneers across various scientific fields who have been marginalized due to gender, time, or place.

Recurring themes include the challenges faced by these women in male-dominated fields, their groundbreaking discoveries, and the persistence required to continue their work despite societal and institutional obstacles. Common subjects include the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine, and technology, with several episodes highlighting the struggles of women of color and the impact of racism on their careers. The podcast also addresses issues of recognition and legacy, presenting stories of women who were initially denied credit for their work but later acknowledged.

There is a consistent effort to contextualize these women's achievements within the broader historical and social frameworks of their times, detailing not only their professional contributions but also their personal journeys. The episodes often explore how these historical figures have shaped modern understandings in their fields, from gynecology to aerobiology, and even public health innovations spurred by wartime needs. Occasionally, episodes delve into the impact of these scientists’ work in contemporary settings, demonstrating the lasting significance of their contributions. Overall, the podcast serves as both an educational resource and a repository for the stories of women who have played pivotal roles in advancing scientific knowledge.

Episodes:

Best Of: Finding Dora Richardson: The Forgotten Developer of Tamoxifen, a Lifesaving Breast Cancer Therapy - Episode Two 2025-Oct-16 36 minutes

Encontrando a Dora Richardson – La desarrolladora olvidada del tamoxifeno, una terapia vital contra el cáncer de mama 2025-Oct-16 33 minutes

Best Of: Finding Dora Richardson, The Forgotten Developer of Tamoxifen, a Lifesaving Breast Cancer Therapy - Episode One 2025-Oct-09 41 minutes

Encontrando a Dora Richardson – Episodio 1 2025-Oct-09 31 minutes

Opening Doors to Computer Science 2025-Sep-25 34 minutes

Frances Glessner Lee: The Mother of Forensic Science 2025-Sep-11 38 minutes

The Mothers of Gynecology 2025-Aug-28 67 minutes

Best Of: Dr. Sarah Loguen Fraser, an Ex-Slave’s Daughter, Becomes a Celebrated Doctor 2025-Aug-14 31 minutes

La Dra. Sarah Loguen Fraser, hija de un ex esclavo, se convierte en una destacada médica 2025-Aug-14 37 minutes

Mujeres perdidas del Proyecto Manhattan: Carolyn Beatrice Parker 2025-Jul-31 15 minutes

Best Of: Lost Women of the Manhattan Project - Carolyn Beatrice Parker 2025-Jul-31 15 minutes

Emma Unson Rotor: la física filipina que desarrolló un arma ultrasecreta 2025-Jul-17 21 minutes

Best Of: Emma Unson Rotor: The Filipina Physicist Who Developed a Top Secret Weapon 2025-Jul-17 20 minutes

Best Of: The Victorian Woman Who Chased Eclipses 2025-Jul-03 30 minutes

La mujer victoriana que perseguía los eclipses 2025-Jul-03 21 minutes

Lost Women of Science - Mujeres Olvidadas de la Ciencia - En Espanõl 2025-Jun-26 2 minutes

Lost Women of Science - In Spanish! 2025-Jun-26 1 minute

The Weather Expert Who Answered the $64,000 Question 2025-Jun-19 34 minutes

Florence Nightingale and her Geeks Declare War on Death 2025-Jun-05 46 minutes

Lost Women of Science Conversations: Air-borne 2025-May-22 33 minutes

Buried History: The Feminist Birth of the Home Pregnancy Test 2025-May-08 30 minutes

Lost Women of Science Conversations: The Elements of Marie Curie 2025-Apr-24 28 minutes

In Evangelina's Footsteps | 5 2025-Apr-10 21 minutes

Siguiendo los pasos de Evangelina | 5 2025-Apr-10 23 minutes

El dictador y la doctora | 4 2025-Apr-03 29 minutes

The Dictator and the Doctor | 4 2025-Apr-03 26 minutes

El retorno de la doctora rebelde | 3 2025-Mar-27 28 minutes

The Rebel Doctor Returns | 3 2025-Mar-27 25 minutes

A Dominican in Paris | 2 2025-Mar-20 29 minutes

Una dominicana en París | 2 2025-Mar-20 32 minutes

La doctora | 1 2025-Mar-13 27 minutes

La Doctora | 1 2025-Mar-13 24 minutes

La Extraordinaria Vida y Trágica Muerte de Evangelina Rodríguez Perozo 2025-Mar-06 1 minute

The Extraordinary Life and Tragic Death of Evangelina Rodríguez Perozo 2025-Mar-06 1 minute

Lost Women of Science Conversations: Lady Tan's Circle of Women 2025-Feb-27 34 minutes

Who Discovered the Cause of Down Syndrome ? Episode Two 2025-Feb-13 31 minutes

Who Discovered the Cause of Down Syndrome? Episode One 2025-Feb-06 25 minutes

Margarethe Hilferding, Sigmund Freud, and the Conspiracy of Silence 2025-Jan-23 41 minutes

Lost Women of Science Conversations: Breaking Through 2025-Jan-09 34 minutes

Best Of: Flora Patterson, the Woman who Kept Devastating Blights from U.S. Shores 2024-Dec-19 26 minutes

Lost Women of Science Conversations - Brave the Wild River 2024-Dec-05 30 minutes

Lost Women of the Manhattan Project: Carolyn Beatrice Parker 2024-Nov-21 15 minutes

Lost Women of Science Conversations: Attention is Discovery 2024-Nov-14 28 minutes

Finding Dora Richardson: The Forgotten Developer of Tamoxifen, a Lifesaving Breast Cancer Therapy - Episode Two 2024-Oct-31 36 minutes

Finding Dora Richardson - The Forgotten Developer of Tamoxifen 2024-Oct-24 41 minutes

Lost Women of Science Conversations: Wonder Drug 2024-Oct-17 36 minutes

The Devil in the Details - Chapter Five 2024-Oct-10 36 minutes

The Devil in the Details - Chapter Four 2024-Oct-03 33 minutes

The Devil in the Details - Chapter Three 2024-Sep-26 28 minutes

The Devil in the Details - Chapter Two 2024-Sep-19 30 minutes

The Devil in the Details - Chapter One 2024-Sep-12 29 minutes

Trailer: The Devil in the Details 2024-Aug-29 1 minute

Lost Women of Science Conversations: Writing for Their Lives 2024-Aug-22 28 minutes

The Quest for Everything 2024-Aug-08 29 minutes

Dr. Jess Wade, Physicist and Wikipedia Maven 2024-Jul-25 15 minutes

Lost Women of Science Conversations: The Exceptions 2024-Jul-11 34 minutes

Chemistry Professor and Crime Buster: The Remarkable Life of Mary Louisa Willard 2024-Jun-27 30 minutes

Lost Women of Science Conversations: Wild By Design 2024-Jun-13 26 minutes

Revisiting The Pathologist in the Basement: Episode 4 Breakfast in the Snow 2024-May-30 42 minutes

Revisiting the Pathologist in the Basement: Episode 3 The Case of the Missing Portrait 2024-May-23 29 minutes

Revisiting the Pathologist in the Basement: Episode 2 The Matilda Effect 2024-May-16 44 minutes

Revisiting the Pathologist in the Basement 2024-May-09 31 minutes

Lost Women of Science Conversations: Mathematics for Ladies 2024-May-02 26 minutes

Elizabeth Bates and the Search for the Roots of Human Language 2024-Apr-25 37 minutes

The Theoretical Physicist Who Worked With J. Robert Oppenheimer at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age 2024-Apr-18 30 minutes

Best Of: The Highest of All Ceilings, Astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin 2024-Apr-11 29 minutes

The Victorian Woman Who Chased Eclipses 2024-Apr-04 30 minutes

Lost Women of Science Conversations: Mischievous Creatures 2024-Mar-28 25 minutes

The Cognitive Scientist Who Unraveled the Mysteries of Language 2024-Mar-21 16 minutes

Best Of: Meet the Physicist who Spoke Out Against the Bomb She Helped Create 2024-Mar-14 23 minutes

How Lilian Bland Built Herself A Plane 2024-Mar-07 39 minutes

Lost Women of Science Conversations: The Black Angels 2024-Feb-29 27 minutes

The Industrial Designer Behind the N95 Mask 2024-Feb-15 12 minutes

The Universe in Radio Vision 2024-Feb-08 28 minutes

From Our Inbox: Forgotten Electrical Engineer’s Work Paved the Way for Radar Technology 2024-Feb-01 15 minutes

Best of: A Complicated Woman, Leona Zacharias 2024-Jan-25 37 minutes

From Our Inbox: Vera Peters - The Doctor Who Helped Spare Women From Radical Mastectomy 2024-Jan-11 12 minutes

Adventures of a Bone Hunter 2024-Jan-04 32 minutes

Emma Unson Rotor: The Filipina Physicist Who Helped Develop a Top Secret Weapon 2023-Dec-14 20 minutes

Flapper of the South Seas: A Young Margaret Mead Travels To The South Seas 2023-Dec-07 26 minutes

The Devastating Logic of Christine Ladd-Franklin 2023-Nov-30 27 minutes

Best Of: The Feminist Test We Keep Failing 2023-Nov-23 21 minutes

From Our Inbox: Mária Telkes, The Biophysicist Who Harnessed Solar Power 2023-Nov-16 11 minutes

The Woman Who Demonstrated the Greenhouse Effect 2023-Nov-09 31 minutes

Dr. Rebecca Crumpler, America's First Black Female Public Health Pioneer 2023-Nov-02 34 minutes

Flemmie Kittrell and the Preschool Experiment 2023-Oct-26 36 minutes

From Our Inbox: A Microbe Hunter in Oregon Fights the 1918 Influenza Pandemic 2023-Oct-19 11 minutes

The English Lit Major Who Cracked Nazi Codes 2023-Oct-12 35 minutes

Who was Christine Essenberg? A remarkable zoologist almost lost to history 2023-Oct-05 29 minutes

Dr. Sarah Loguen Fraser, an ex-slave’s daughter, becomes a celebrated doctor 2023-Sep-28 31 minutes

A Flair for Efficiency: The Woman Who Redesigned the American Kitchen 2023-Sep-21 34 minutes

Part 2: Why Did Lise Meitner Never Receive the Nobel Prize for Splitting the Atom? 2023-Sep-14 26 minutes

Part 1: Why Did Lise Meitner Never Receive the Nobel Prize for Splitting the Atom? 2023-Sep-07 26 minutes

They Remembered the Lost Women of the Manhattan Project So That We Wouldn't Forget 2023-Aug-31 11 minutes

Meet the Physicist who Spoke Out Against the Bomb She Helped Create 2023-Aug-24 21 minutes

The Story of the Real Lilli Hornig, the Only Female Scientist Named in the Film Oppenheimer 2023-Aug-17 18 minutes

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

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

One of Many Lost Women of the Manhattan Project: Leona Woods Marshall Libby 2023-Jul-20 11 minutes

Women of the Manhattan Project: Trailer 2023-Jul-13 1 minute

From Our Inbox: Alessandra Giliani, 14th-century Italian anatomist 2023-Jul-06 7 minutes

The Highest of All Ceilings: Astronomer Cecilia Payne 2023-Jun-22 29 minutes

What's in a Street Name? Everything. 2023-Jun-01 19 minutes

The Doctor and the Fix: Chapter 5 2023-May-04 35 minutes

Reminder about next episode and an update 2023-Apr-27 less than a minute

The Doctor and the Fix: Chapter 4 2023-Apr-20 38 minutes

The Doctor and the Fix: Chapter 3 2023-Apr-13 34 minutes

The Doctor and the Fix: Chapter 2 2023-Apr-06 27 minutes

The Doctor and the Fix: Chapter 1 2023-Mar-30 28 minutes

The Doctor and the Fix: Trailer 2023-Mar-16 1 minute

Of Chestnuts, Cherry Trees, and Mushroom Catsup: Flora Patterson, the Woman who Kept Devastating Blights from U.S. Shores 2023-Jan-26 24 minutes

A Complicated Woman: Leona Zacharias 2023-Jan-12 35 minutes

Introducing Lost Women of Science Shorts: Trailer 2023-Jan-05 1 minute

The Woman Who Knocked Science Sideways 2022-Dec-01 27 minutes

The Feminist Test We Keep Failing 2022-Nov-17 21 minutes

The First Lady of Engineering: An Interview with Y.Y.'s Daughter, Carol Lawson 2022-Nov-03 34 minutes

The First Lady of Engineering: Chapter 4 2022-Oct-13 39 minutes

The First Lady of Engineering: Chapter 3 2022-Oct-06 37 minutes

The First Lady of Engineering: Chapter 2 2022-Sep-29 35 minutes

The First Lady of Engineering: Chapter 1 2022-Sep-22 34 minutes

The First Lady of Engineering: Trailer 2022-Sep-08 1 minute

Meet our new cohost! 2022-Sep-01 1 minute

A Grasshopper in Tall Grass: The Weather Myth 2022-Jun-02 26 minutes

A Grasshopper in Tall Grass: Chapter 5 2022-Apr-28 30 minutes

A Grasshopper in Tall Grass: Chapter 4 2022-Apr-21 40 minutes

A Grasshopper in Tall Grass: Chapter 3 2022-Apr-14 37 minutes

A Grasshopper in Tall Grass: Chapter 2 2022-Apr-07 40 minutes

A Grasshopper in Tall Grass: Chapter 1 2022-Mar-31 37 minutes

A Grasshopper in Very Tall Grass: Trailer 2022-Mar-17 2 minutes

The Pathologist in the Basement: The Resignation 2021-Dec-23 26 minutes

The Pathologist in the Basement: Chapter 4 2021-Nov-25 37 minutes

The Pathologist in the Basement: Chapter 3 2021-Nov-18 28 minutes

The Pathologist in the Basement: Chapter 2 2021-Nov-11 38 minutes

The Pathologist in the Basement: Chapter 1 2021-Nov-04 31 minutes

The Pathologist in the Basement: Trailer 2021-Oct-20 3 minutes

Lost Women of Science: Trailer 2021-Oct-14 1 minute