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Discrimination & Persecution
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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
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Hashime Murayama and the Art of Saving Lives

Distillations Article
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Anonymous Too Long—STL Women Shorted on Credit for Scientific Work
Media Coverage
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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
Bredig Archive materials

Hamodia: A Golden Age Turned Black
Media Coverage
Science and Disability exhibition

NCPH Blog: Science and Disability Q&A
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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