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The Dark Angel of Bryn Mawr: The Saga of M. Carey Thomas
In telling the story of M. Carey Thomas, there is no getting around the fundamental fact that she was, resoundingly, a terrible person....
Dale DeBakcsy
6 hours ago
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Monarch of Crystallography: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin and the Structure of Large Molecules.
Two scientists. Two crystallographers. Both successful, but one died young after her most significant discovery was snatched from her,...
Dale DeBakcsy
May 12
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Nursing on the Fringe: Mary Breckinridge and the Founding of the Frontier Nursing Service
America in the 1920s. The Jazz Age - flappers and motorcars, talkies and speak-easies - it is difficult to reflect on this time without...
Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 30
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An Ascending Arc: The Educator’s Journey of Mathematician Lovenia Deconge Watson
In one sense, the story of Lovenia Deconge Watson (b. 1933) is the story of thousands of bright young Black women, born in the South in...
Dale DeBakcsy
Mar 26
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Rapid Detection: Millicent “Mimi” Goldschimdt and the Probing of the Microbial World
“Even though she’ll be a spinster, she’ll be able to support herself.” These lines, uttered in 1948, were the gateway to a professional...
Dale DeBakcsy
Mar 14
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Dame Daphne Sheldrick and the Half Century Struggle to Save the Elephants of Kenya.
A mother elephant staggers forward, arrows protruding from her flank and legs, poison coursing through her blood that is attacking her...
Dale DeBakcsy
Jun 5, 2023
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Lavinia Waterhouse: Gold Rush Physician, Frontier Suffragette
Lavinia Waterhouse (1809–1890) lived at the intersection of a tangle of ideas that, to the twenty-first-century mind, have no business...
Dale DeBakcsy
May 5, 2023
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