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

Ghost Hunting in the 19th Century

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ExxonMobil’s Carla Pereira to Receive 18th Annual SCI Gordon E. Moore Medal

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Cover of Lady Ranelagh book by Michelle DiMeo

New Biography by Institute’s Library Director Unveils Life and Legacy of Unknown Woman Scientist

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Chemistry World: Ida Noddack and the Trouble with Element 43

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Portrait of Lady Ranelagh

Nature: An Incomparable Intellectual Who Fell through the Cracks of History

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Cynthia Cai Joins Institute’s Board of Directors

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Catherine Keenan Joins Institute’s Board of Directors

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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

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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?

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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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Kathryn C. “Kitty” Hach-Darrow

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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

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

Nylon: A Revolution in Textiles

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