Thank you, Steven Pinker, for being part of the podcast.

“We were each put on earth to torment the other,” says cognitive scientist Steven Pinker of Elizabeth Bates, a psychologist, who challenged the prevailing theory about how humans acquire language.

Listen to the full episode at the link in our bio.
#lostwomenofsci #linguists

This week on Lost Women of Science we learn about Melba Phillips, who grew up on a farm in Indiana at the turn of the twentieth century. She was one of J. Robert Oppenheimer’s first graduate students.
Listen to the full episode at the link in our bio.
#lostwomenofsci #oppenheimer

Did you catch the solar eclipse yesterday and it left you wanting more?
This week on LWoS we are continuing the astronomy theme with one of our favorite episodes on astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, who figured out what the stars are made of. Listen to the full episode in bio!

In North America on April 8 we are experiencing a solar eclipse, so this week on Lost Women of Science we learn about Annie Maunder, who was fascinated by the secrets of the sun and was determined to travel the globe and unlock them.
Listen to the episode at the link in our bio!

Thank you @PocketCasts for including Lost Women of Science in the Celebrating Women category! Download the PocketCasts app for FREE, and you'll spot Lost Women of Science on the Discover page!

The Morris sisters made significant contributions to botany and entomology, but their stories were erased from the history of early American science, both accidentally and by design. trib.al/J2VFa0R

New episode out now!
LWoS talks to historian Catherine McNeur about how she rediscovered the lives and work of Elizabeth and Margaretta Morris, two scientists who contributed to botany and entomology in the mid-19th Century.
Listen at wherever you get your podcasts!

Ursula Bellugi's research on sign language demonstrated the connection between language skills and biology.

🧠 'The Cognitive Neuroscientist Who Helped Unravel the Mysteries of Language' by Samia Bouzid, Katie Hafner and Lost Women of Science via Scientific American.
scientificamerican.com/article/the-co…

🎉This month marks an important milestone for Lost Women of Science. We’ve hit one million podcast downloads! 🥳
🙏We want to thank you, our listeners, and everyone on the Lost Women of Science team- And keep listening! There are so many more great female scientists to celebrate!

In our series, From Our Inbox, we share stories that we hear about from our listeners. This week, we bring you the story of Ursula Bellugi, a cognitive scientist who helped unravel the mysteries of sign language. If you have a story for us, please share at buff.ly/3Psh9C2

Christine Ladd-Franklin was a psychologist, logician & mathematician whose theory of colour vision concluded that it evolved in three stages. She often wrote of the injustice of the oppression of women. More at Lost Women of Science podcast rb.gy/dpdigy #womenshistorymonth

May we suggest a podcast for your weekend?
Lost Women of Science has an episode on the amazing Ruby Payne-Scott, the first female radio astronomer. Working at CSIRO from 1941 to 1951, she made the first radio interferometry measurement at Dover Heights, Sydney.
lostwomenofscience.org/episodes/the-u…

Not only Lise Meitner, so many more women scientists are eclipsed from Oppenheimer's version of history - Leona Woods, Aggie Lee, Naomi Livesay, Kathrine Way, Frances Dunne, Melba Phillips - and you can learn about them all right here: lostwomenofscience.org/season-6 Lost Women of Science

And The Winner Is ...Oppenheimer! 🏆
Yes, we think it is a good movie too, but where were all the female scientists?
Our series, Lost Women of the Manhattan Project, tells a few of their stories:
You can listen at buff.ly/3wOy63c

While we celebrate women daily at Lost Women of Science, today is an extra special day as it’s International Women’s Day!
If you’re looking for a way to celebrate, check out our catalog of podcast episodes featuring some amazing female scientists. Listen at the link in our bio!

✈️Have you ever stared out of a plane window for hours on end, wondering how exactly this bunch of metal is actually up in the air flying? At Lost Women of Science, we sure have.
We get to the bottom of it and way more in this week’s episode on Lilian Bland, who built a plane in

Canadian radiation oncologist Vera Peters pioneered the use of lumpectomies and postoperative radiation to treat breast cancer patients.

Hear her story from Lost Women of Science and PRX bit.ly/3P3QWcV

March is Women's History Month and we at Lost Women of Science will be celebrating!
Our mission is to tell the remarkable stories of groundbreaking women who never got the full recognition they deserved. Thank you to all of our listeners and partners who continue to support our