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The Silenced Women of STEM

You"ve heard of Marie Curie, Rosalind Franklin, and maybe even Katherine Johnson...but what about all the other female scientists whose discoveries and contributions have been lost to history?Welcome to The Silenced Women of STEM, where we bring you stories about the forgotten, original Women in STEM.

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Episode 10 - Cecilia Gaposchkin: "Stars shine bright,...

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2025/08/08

Sourceshttps://www.amphilsoc.org/blog/cecilia-payne-gaposchkin-1900-1979 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/a-century-ago-pioneering-astrophysicist-cecilia-payne-gaposchkin-showed-us-what-stars-are-made-of-180986193/ https://www.britannica.com/biography/Cecilia-Payne-Gaposchkin https://www.amnh.org/learn-teach/curriculum-collections/cosmic-horizons-book/cecilia-payne-profile

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26:09

Episode 9 - Janaki Ammal: "Woman Saves Forest with...

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2025/07/23

Have you ever thought, hmm my sugar needs to be sweeter? Well, India did. They enlisted the help of Janaki Ammal, an Indian Botanist sweetened sugar, saved a forest, and traveled the world in search of knowledge. This is her

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Episode 8 - Dorothy Hodgkins: "Crystals and Chemistry"

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2025/07/16

Imagine waking up every morning with joints so swollen and painful that even buttoning a shirt feels impossible, yet you still choose to spend your day hunched over delicate instruments, determined to uncover mysteries in chemistry. This was the world of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, a woman who refused to be defined by pain or limited by the expectations of her time.References:https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1964/hodgkin/biographical/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Dorothy-Hodgkin

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27:12

Episode 7 - Jeanne Villepreux-Power: "Alien or...

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2025/07/09

What do royal wedding gowns, octopuses that look like aliens, and the invention of the aquarium have in common? One woman: Jeanne Villepreux-Power. Today, we’re diving into the story of a self-taught scientist who defied the odds, turned her home into a marine lab, and changed the way we study life in the

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31:04

Episode 6 - Valentina Tereshkova: "Space Propaganda...

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2025/07/02

It's 1963. You're 26 years old. You’ve left school at 16 to work in a textile factory. On weekends, you sneak off to jump out of airplanes, perhaps as an escape from day to day life. Suddenly, out of 400 candidates, you are chosen to become the first woman in space. You’re launched into orbit alone, riding in a spacecraft with settings so wrong, if you hadn’t caught the mistake, you would have drifted endlessly into the void. You fix it. You stay calm. You orbit the Earth 48 times. And when you

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Episode 5 - Nettie Stevens: "Gender Reveal Party:...

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2025/06/25

Have you heard about how Henry the VIII of England and his six wives? There’s like a whole musical about it now called SIX. Well Henry being the king that he was kept getting rid of his wives for various reasons, a large one being that his wives were not giving him male children. Well, the joke’s on Henry because we now know that sperm which is produced by men holds the key for sex determination aka it was lowkey Henry’s fault for not having sons. And you know who found out that men are the ones who

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Episode 4 - Alice Ball: "L is for Leprosy"

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2025/06/18

6 years. What can you do in just 6 years? Could you change the world in 6 years? Probably not. But you know who did. Alice Ball. From graduating high school to her death, Alice Ball invented a technique in just 6 years that would change the

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Episode 3 - Frances Glessner Lee: "Grandma knows her...

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2025/06/11

Imagine your best friend gets murdered. You call the cops, expecting a team equipped with gloves, evidence bags, testing kits, all of that. Instead, they trample through the house, accidentally ruining all the evidence that could have led them directly to your friend's killer. While this would cause outrage in today’s society, this was normal in the 1800s. Investigators were not investigating back then (they didn't even have proper training). There was this one grandma who had enough. She decided

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Episode 2 - Lucy Taylor Hobbs: "Woman who pulls teeth"

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2025/06/04

Did you know that most dentists back in the day did NOT have a dental license? It makes sense now why a lot of people were scared of going to the dentist. Because back then, you didn't know if your dentist was a guy who knew what he was doing or just some rando who liked teeth. Now imagine TRYING to get your dental license, so that you are credible, but you are basically barred from getting one because you're a girl, even though you are grossly overeducated. You wouldn’t stand for that, so you

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Episode 1 - Mary Anning: Child Paleontology Prodigy

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2025/05/28

Imagine that you have 9 other siblings (maybe 8), but they all die except your one older brother. Your family is also incredibly poor, but you enjoy hunting fossils with your father. Even though you have NO education, he helps you learn geology and anatomy. But then he also dies. Now you are even poorer. And even though it is frowned upon for a girl, your mother makes you continue laboring for fossils in hopes of earning a few extra

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