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Frances Spence: The Quiet Programmer Who Taught ENIAC to Think and Then Vanished from History
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#WomenInSTEM #STEM #Programming #Computing #Computer
Frances Spence: The Quiet Programmer Who Taught ENIAC to Think and Then Vanished from History
Frances Spence helped programme ENIAC, the world’s first electronic computer, inventing software engineering from scratch – then left the field when she married. Discover how one brilli…
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November 30, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Kathleen Antonelli: The Subroutine's Architect - How Ireland's Invisible Programmer Built Modern Software
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#WomenInSTEM #STEM #Programming #Computing #TechHistory
Kathleen Antonelli: The Subroutine’s Architect – How Ireland’s Invisible Programmer Built Modern Software
From Irish immigrant to ENIAC coder, Kathleen Antonelli invented the subroutine while being told to smile for cameras. Hear how she cracked machine logic, fought erasure, and shaped the digital age…
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November 29, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Jean Bartik: Inventing Software Engineering From ENIAC's Vacuum Tubes
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#WomenInSTEM #STEM #ENIAC #UNIVAC #Programming
Jean Bartik: Inventing Software Engineering From ENIAC’s Vacuum Tubes
Jean Bartik taught herself to program ENIAC through schematic diagrams alone, inventing subroutines and debugging techniques that became computing’s foundation. Yet the woman who transformed …
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November 28, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Yvette Cauchois: The Woman Who Saw the Hidden Element and Shaped the Spectrum
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#WomenInSTEM #STEM #XraySpectroscopy #Synchrotron #XrayOptics
Yvette Cauchois: The Woman Who Saw the Hidden Element and Shaped the Spectrum
Legendary physicist Yvette Cauchois discusses unseen elements, her ingenious spectrometer, and the long shadows cast by scientific credit disputes. Her candid conversation spans discovery, war, and…
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November 27, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Three Drops: How Karen Wetterhahn's Death Rewrote Laboratory Safety After She Did Everything Right
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#WomenInSTEM #STEM #Bioinorganic #Toxicology #Mercury
Three Drops: How Karen Wetterhahn’s Death Rewrote Laboratory Safety After She Did Everything Right
A pioneering chemist who did everything right still died from dimethylmercury exposure. This fictional interview resurrects the woman behind the safety warning – exploring her 85 papers, her …
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November 26, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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‘Scott of Girton’: The Woman Undergraduates Cheered Into Cambridge History
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#WomenInSTEM #STEM #AlgebraicGeometry #AlgebraicCurves #AnalyticGeometry
‘Scott of Girton’: The Woman Undergraduates Cheered Into Cambridge History
A woman silenced by deafness yet heard by undergraduates who drowned out Cambridge’s refusal to name her. From illegal exam-taker to Bryn Mawr’s founding mathematician, she demanded rig…
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November 25, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Tatyana Alexeyevna Afanasyeva: The Physicist Einstein Wouldn't Publish - How Thirty Years of Rigorous Work on Thermodynamic Foundations Remained Hidden in Plain Sight
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#WomenInSTEM #STEM #StatisticalMechanics #Thermodynamics #Entropy
Tatyana Alexeyevna Afanasyeva: The Physicist Einstein Wouldn’t Publish – How Thirty Years of Rigorous Work on Thermodynamic Foundations Remained Hidden in Plain Sight
Tatyana Afanasyeva co-authored physics’ most influential encyclopedia article on statistical mechanics, yet history credits her husband alone. After his death, she spent thirty years developi…
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November 24, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Mary Sears: The Oceanographer Who Mapped Death and Saved Thousands at Tarawa - How One Woman's Tide Tables Changed the Course of the Pacific War
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#WomenInSTEM #STEM #Oceanography #Planktonology #NavalScience
Mary Sears: The Oceanographer Who Mapped Death and Saved Thousands at Tarawa – How One Woman’s Tide Tables Changed the Course of the Pacific War
Mary Sears reveals how her midnight tide calculations saved thousands of Marines at Tarawa and beyond – and why the Navy desperately needed her expertise while refusing to let her on research…
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November 23, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Florence Nightingale David: The Statistician Who Calculated Casualties and Saved London During the Blitz
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#WomenInSTEM #STEM #Statistics #Probability #Biostatistics
Florence Nightingale David: The Statistician Who Calculated Casualties and Saved London During the Blitz
Florence Nightingale David hand-cranked mechanical calculators to create correlation tables that enabled modern statistics, then forecasted bombing casualties before London was attacked – wor…
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November 22, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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The Blood Between: A Conversation with Ruby Sakae Hirose
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#WomenInSTEM #STEM #Biochemistry #Haematology #Immunology
The Blood Between: A Conversation with Ruby Sakae Hirose
Ruby Sakae Hirose decoded blood clotting’s deepest secrets whilst her family was caged in American concentration camps. The biochemist who advanced life-saving vaccines could hold property he…
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November 21, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Kathleen Booth: The Woman Who Taught Computers to Speak Human
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#WomenInSTEM #STEM #ComputerScience #AssemblyLanguage #ArtificialIntelligence
Kathleen Booth: The Woman Who Taught Computers to Speak Human
Computing pioneer Kathleen Booth invented assembly language at 25, built three groundbreaking computers, and demonstrated the first machine translation – yet worked in the shadows for decades…
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November 20, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Evelyn Boyd Granville: The Mathematician Who Programmed the Path to the Moon
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#WomenInSTEM #STEM #OrbitalMechanics #NumericalAnalysis #Computing
Evelyn Boyd Granville: The Mathematician Who Programmed the Path to the Moon
Evelyn Boyd Granville, second Black woman to earn a mathematics PhD, programmed Apollo spacecraft trajectories – yet remained invisible for decades. From segregated classrooms to NASA’s…
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November 19, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Berta Karlik: The Element Finder
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#WomenInSTEM #STEM #Radiophysics #Radioactivity #Astatine
Berta Karlik: The Element Finder
A physicist who discovered nature’s hidden element during wartime Vienna speaks candidly about breaking barriers, proving astatine occurs naturally, and how her overlooked work now saves canc…
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November 18, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Alice Lee: The Statistician Who Measured Anatomists' Skulls and Debunked Gender Science
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#WomenInSTEM #STEM #Statistics #Biometry #Mathematics #Eugenics
Alice Lee: The Statistician Who Measured Anatomists’ Skulls and Debunked Gender Science
Alice Lee, Victorian statistician, dismantled pseudoscience linking skull size to intelligence – by measuring anatomists’ heads and naming them publicly. Paid less than a typist, she re…
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November 17, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Christine Ladd-Franklin: The Logician Who Refused Her Fake Diploma and Rewrote the Rules of Valid Argument
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#WomenInSTEM #STEM #Logic #Neuroscience #VisionScience
Christine Ladd-Franklin: The Logician Who Refused Her Fake Diploma and Rewrote the Rules of Valid Argument
At seventy-eight, Christine Ladd-Franklin demanded her earned PhD – denied forty-four years earlier simply for being a woman. Discover how this mathematician and logician solved problems that…
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November 16, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Hedwig Kohn: Measuring Light, Defying Erasure
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#WomenInSTEM #STEM #Radiometry #Spectroscopy #Flamespectroscopy
Hedwig Kohn: Measuring Light, Defying Erasure
A German-Jewish physicist recounts her 17-year wait for academic recognition, her dismissal by the Nazis, and her brother’s murder in the Holocaust. She discusses how 70 international letters…
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November 15, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Ida Freund: First Female Chemistry Lecturer and the Periodic Table of Cupcakes
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#WomenInSTEM #STEM #Chemistry #Education #Thermodynamics
Ida Freund: First Female Chemistry Lecturer and the Periodic Table of Cupcakes
A century after her death, the Austrian refugee who became Britain’s first female university chemistry lecturer speaks candidly about inventing periodic table cupcakes, designing apparatus, f…
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November 14, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Marta Bohn-Meyer: First Woman in the Blackbird - The Engineer Behind NASA's Forgotten High-Speed Research
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#WomenInSTEM #STEM #Aerospace #Aerodynamics #Supersonics
Marta Bohn-Meyer: First Woman in the Blackbird – The Engineer Behind NASA’s Forgotten High-Speed Research
From SR-71 Mach 3 flights to aerobatic championships, Marta Bohn-Meyer broke barriers whilst advancing supersonic research. Discover how her laminar flow innovations still shape aviation’s fu…
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November 13, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Anna Mani: The Physicist Who Built India's Meteorological Independence Without a PhD
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#WomenInSTEM #STEM #Meteorology #Ozone #SolarRadiation
Anna Mani: The Physicist Who Built India’s Meteorological Independence Without a PhD
Meteorologist Anna Mani recounts designing India’s weather instruments, shaping ozone discovery, and insisting on scientific accuracy even as her own achievements and credentials were overlooked. A…
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November 11, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Olive Dennis: From Ventilation Patents to Reclining Seats - The Invisible Engineering Behind Modern Transportation
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#WomenInSTEM #STEM #Ergonomics #Railway #Infrastructure
Olive Dennis: From Ventilation Patents to Reclining Seats – The Invisible Engineering Behind Modern Transportation
A civil engineer who travelled half a million miles observing passenger comfort speaks candidly about designing reclining seats, ventilation systems, and air-conditioned trains – then watchin…
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November 10, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Beatrice Tinsley: Cosmologist Who Proved Galaxies Age and Die
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#WomenInSTEM #STEM #Cosmology #Astrophysics #Galaxies
Beatrice Tinsley: Cosmologist Who Proved Galaxies Age and Die
A young astronomer confronts one of astronomy’s most powerful figures – and history proves her right. Beatrice Tinsley reveals how she calculated galaxy evolution by hand, sacrificed he…
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November 9, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Ellen Gleditsch: Radiochemist Who Measured Radium and Defended Science Under Occupation
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#WomenInSTEM #STEM #Radiochemistry #Isotopes #Radionuclides
Ellen Gleditsch: Radiochemist Who Measured Radium and Defended Science Under Occupation
She sailed to Yale uninvited, determined a half-life that stood for fifty years, and sheltered scientists from the Nazis. Norwegian radiochemist Ellen Gleditsch refused to be invisible – unti…
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November 8, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Michiyo Tsujimura: The Chemist Who Wrote Green Tea's Scientific Story
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#WomenInSTEM #STEM #Biochemistry #Phytochemistry #Nutraceuticals
Michiyo Tsujimura: The Chemist Who Wrote Green Tea’s Scientific Story
Michiyo Tsujimura – the groundbreaking chemist reveals how she isolated catechin and discovered vitamin C in green tea – whilst barred from universities, denied pay, and channelled into…
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November 7, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Wang Zhenyi: How One Woman Made Mathematics Accessible to Common People
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#WomenInSTEM #STEM #Astronomy #Mathematics #Poetry
Wang Zhenyi: How One Woman Made Mathematics Accessible to Common People
Meet the 18th-century scholar who modelled eclipses with a lamp and mirror, democratised mathematics through plain language, and wrote poetry attacking social inequality. A conversation with histor…
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November 6, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Olga Taussky-Todd: The Torchbearer Who Transformed Matrices Into Mathematical Theory
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#WomenInSTEM #STEM #LinearAlgebra #MatrixTheory #NumericalAnalysis
Olga Taussky-Todd: The Torchbearer Who Transformed Matrices Into Mathematical Theory
A candid conversation with Olga Taussky-Todd – the Vienna-born pioneer who transformed matrices from computational tools into rigorous theory. Discover how she corrected Hilbert’s error…
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November 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM