Isabella Karle, a chemist and x-ray crystallographer changed the course of science through her revolutionary, complex discoveries. Why did her husband get all the credit?

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We trace the final chapter of Katharine’s career, her retirement from GE, and her disappearance from public memory.

At the height of her career, Katharine Burr Blodgett faced challenges that not even her closest colleagues suspected.

When Katharine Burr Blodgett discovers non-reflecting glass, The General Electric Company’s public relations machine makes her a star.

From Schenectady to the University of Cambridge, Katharine Burr Blodgett’s brilliance impresses the world’s leading physicists.

Born to a family with a tragic past, Katharine defies the expectations of her upbringing as an upper-middle class girl to make chemistry and physics the center of her life.

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In 1918 a young Katharine Burr Blodgett joins future Nobel Prize winner Irving Langmuir at The General Electric Company’s industrial research laboratory in Schenectady, N.Y. It’s the start of her bril...

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When the late Susan Wojcicki discovered she had lung cancer, she wanted to find out why. She was relatively young, healthy and had never smoked.

Maud Slye bred tens of thousands of mice to find the cause of cancer.

Betrayal, ambition, and the double helix: Turning Rosalind Franklin’s story and the discovery of the structure of DNA into an opera.

When ICI decided to terminate the breast cancer research, the team went underground.

Cuando ICI decidió cancelar la investigación sobre el cáncer de mama, el equipo continuó en secreto.

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Conoce a la Dra. Sarah Loguen Fraser, hija de abolicionistas y una de las primeras mujeres afroamericanas formadas como médicas después de la Guerra Civil.

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Emma Unson Rotor trabajó en la espoleta de proximidad, una innovación revolucionaria en la tecnología armamentística de la Segunda Guerra Mundial que el Departamento de Guerra de Estados Unidos califi...

The game-changing Vera C. Rubin Observatory will collect more astronomical data in its first year than all other telescopes combined

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