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Women
Portrait of Lady Ranelagh

Nature: An Incomparable Intellectual Who Fell through the Cracks of History
Media Coverage
Cynthia Cai headshot

Cynthia Cai Joins Institute’s Board of Directors
Press Release
Plastic Wares Sales Display Featuring Dow Styron 1949

The Pulse: The Miracle and Menace of Plastic
Media Coverage
Catherine Keenan headshot

Catherine Keenan Joins Institute’s Board of Directors
Press Release
Michael Somogyi and Unidentified Women in Laboratory

BBC: The People Solving Mysteries during Lockdown
Media Coverage
Woman at lab with instrument

A Seat at the Table

Distillations Article
Seated man holding brush, peering into microscope

Hashime Murayama and the Art of Saving Lives

Distillations Article
Michael Somogyi and Unidentified Women in Laboratory

St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Readers Rapidly Identify Renowned Scientist
Media Coverage
Screenshot of Twitter post

St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Anonymous Too Long—STL Women Shorted on Credit for Scientific Work
Media Coverage
Color image of cancer cell

Who Needs a Mammogram?

Distillations Article
Woman in laboratory at Hercules Hopewell plant

Women in Science
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Cuban postage stamp commemorating Pierre and Marie Curie’s discovery of radium

Philadelphia Inquirer: In Museums—Suffrage, Scandal, Sloths, and Rebellion
Media Coverage
Painting of William and Caroline Herschel standing in a study, surrounded by star charts and telescopes

Making Space for Women in Astronomy

Distillations Article
Still from Where Are My Children: At the end of the film the Waltons are visited by the spectral images of their offspring, first as children and then as young adults.

Where Are My Children? Public Health in the Movies

Distillations Article

Distilled #2: An Early (Gold-Plated!) Not-Quite-IUD

Distillations Video

It’s Nothing New: Sexism in the Lab

Distillations Article

Women’s Work

Distillations Article
Portrait of Dorothy Sayers, progenitor of forensic-based crime fiction. (National Portrait Gallery, London)

Forensic Chemistry in Golden-Age Detective Fiction: Dorothy L. Sayers and the CSI Effect

Distillations Article
A giant leg, 35 feet high, advertised nylons to the Los Angeles area.

Nylon: A Revolution in Textiles

Distillations Article
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