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Anne Fredrickson

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Living Chemistry

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Anne Fredrickson interviews storyteller Susan Marie Frontczak about her one-woman show, Manya: A Living History of Marie Curie, which depicts the life of the Nobel laureate from childhood to the discovery of radium.

First Lady

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In 1667 Margaret Cavendish was the first woman allowed to visit the all-male bastion of the Royal Society, a newly formed scientific society. Who was this woman?

The Fourth Wall

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Minneapolis’s Washburn A Mill, once the largest flour producer in the world, has exploded twice: first in 1878 and again in 1928. The Washburn A—or rather, what’s left of it—has entered its third life as the Mill City Museum.

Made in America

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Anne Fredrickson reviews the Mercer Museum in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.

Vanity Unfair

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The frequent emphasis on Marie Curie’s gender and marriage packaged her unconventional life into a story more suitable for public consumption: woman—which was to say, wife—first, scientist second. A 1904 caricature from Vanity Fair, part of CHF’s Fisher Collection, is a striking example of the role images played in creating the Curie myth.

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