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Letters between Lise Meitner and the chemist Otto Hahn reveal how she struggled with Hahns failure to credit her work and condemn the Nazi atrocities

Lise Meitner, an Austrian-born Jewish physicist, never received the Nobel Prize she deserved for her pioneering work on nuclear fission

A young psychoanalyst specializing in sexual issues starts getting calls for help—about something else entirely

Mycologist Flora Patterson helped make the USDA fungus collection into the world’s largest. She also made a mean mushroom “catsup”

Theres a test that we at Lost Women of Science seem to fail again and again: the Finkbeiner Test. 

Yvonne Y. Clark, known as Y.Y. throughout her career, had a lifetime of groundbreaking achievements as a Black female mechanical engineer. In the third episode of the third season of the  Lost Women of Science podcast, we see how Y.Y.’s brilliance helped make Project Apollo a success

Yvonne Y. Clark, known as Y.Y. throughout her career, had a lifetime of groundbreaking achievements as a Black female mechanical engineer. In the second episode of the newest season of the  Lost Women of Science podcast, we see Y.Y.s true grit as she fights for recognition and a place at the science table

Yvonne Y. Clark, known as Y.Y. throughout her career, had a lifetime of groundbreaking achievements as a Black female mechanical engineer. The third season of the Lost Women of Science podcast begins at the start of her story, during her unconventional childhood in the segregated South

When we first started researching Klára Dán von Neumann, we thought she was “the computer scientist you should thank for your smartphone’s weather app.” It turns out that’s not true

Klára Dán von Neumann enters the Netherworld of computer simulations and postwar Los Alamos National Laboratory