Women
Portrait of the Fox sisters, spiritualists in the mid 19th-century.

Ghost Hunting in the 19th Century

Distillations Podcast
Carla Pereira headshot

ExxonMobil’s Carla Pereira to Receive 18th Annual SCI Gordon E. Moore Medal
Press Release
Cover of Lady Ranelagh book by Michelle DiMeo

New Biography by Institute’s Library Director Unveils Life and Legacy of Unknown Woman Scientist
Press Release
Ida Noddack banner

Chemistry World: Ida Noddack and the Trouble with Element 43
Media Coverage
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
Woman at lab with instrument

A Seat at the Table

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Seated man holding brush, peering into microscope

Hashime Murayama and the Art of Saving Lives

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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
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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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Painting of William and Caroline Herschel standing in a study, surrounded by star charts and telescopes

Making Space for Women in Astronomy

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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

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

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It’s Nothing New: Sexism in the Lab

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Women’s Work

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Clifford and Kathryn Hach.

Kathryn C. “Kitty” Hach-Darrow
Historical Profile
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

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