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Discrimination & Persecution
Genre oil painting

Quacks, Plagues, and Pandemics

Distillations Article
Photo of Leo Alexander

Leo Alexander’s Unflinching Pursuit

Distillations Article
print of a Goya etchingq

How the Elements Got Their Names

Distillations Article
Portrait of James Barry

How History Keeps Ignoring James Barry

Distillations Article
Gabriela Serrato Marks doing fieldwork in a cave.

Bonus Episode: Interview with Gabriela Serrato Marks

Distillations Podcast
children learning geography in a classroom from 1921.

Science and Disability: Part 2

Distillations Podcast
Photo of FDR in a wheelchair

Bonus Episode: Interview with Kim Nielsen

Distillations Podcast
Catalogue image of microscopes

Science and Disability: Part 1

Distillations Podcast
Black and white movie still image

A Silent, Savage Menace: Reassessing "Panic in the Streets"

Distillations Article
Michael Somogyi and Unidentified Women in Laboratory

BBC: The People Solving Mysteries during Lockdown
Media Coverage
Seated man holding brush, peering into microscope

Hashime Murayama and the Art of Saving Lives

Distillations Article
Screenshot of Twitter post

St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Anonymous Too Long—STL Women Shorted on Credit for Scientific Work
Media Coverage
large crowd outside in city

Philadelphia Earth Week, Fifty Years On

Distillations Article
Michael Somogyi and Unidentified Women in Laboratory

Massive Science: Can You Help Identify Unnamed Women Scientists of the Past?
Media Coverage
Cuban postage stamp commemorating Pierre and Marie Curie’s discovery of radium

Philadelphia Inquirer: In Museums—Suffrage, Scandal, Sloths, and Rebellion
Media Coverage
Identification papers from the Bredig archive

Archive Smuggled from Nazi-Era Germany Is Acquired by the Science History Institute
Press Release
Painting of William and Caroline Herschel standing in a study, surrounded by star charts and telescopes

Making Space for Women in Astronomy

Distillations Article
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