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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

ENIAC, an early electronic computer, gets a makeover

Klára Dán von Neumann arrives in Princeton, N.J., just as war breaks out in Europe

Before she entered a world of secrecy, computers and nuclear weapons, who was Klára von Neumann?

We investigate the curious, charged circumstances surrounding the resignation of the director of pediatrics at Columbia Universitys Babies Hospital, and one pathologist at the center of it all: Dorothy Andersen.

In our final episode, we explore Dorothy Andersen’s legacy—what she left behind and how her work has lived on since her death. Describing her mentor’s influence on her life and career, Dr. Celia Ores gives us a rare look into what Dr. Andersen was really like. We then turn to researchers, doctors, and patients, who fill us in on the progress that has grown from Dr. Andersen’s initial work. These major developments include the discovery of the cystic fibros...