Marcy Thompson is an award-winning audio producer who has covered science, technology, history, culture, sports, business, and celebrity chat. Her work can be heard on Next Question with Katie Couric, Overheard at National Geographic, and Note to Self (WNYC), among many others.
Elizabeth Roboz Einstein was the determined genius behind a multiple sclerosis breakthrough
A Hungarian refugee who came to the U.S. with nothing but a diploma made a breakthrough discovery in the burgeoning field of neurochemistry
Meet the Mother of Modern Forensic Science Who Made Crime Scene Dioramas
How a determined socialite, inspired by true crime, helped professionalize the field of murder investigations
Margarethe Hilferding, Sigmund Freud and the Conspiracy of Silence
Margarethe Hilferding was the first woman admitted to Sigmund Freud’s Vienna Psychoanalytic Society, but her radical work on maternal instinct was dismissed and ignored
To Develop Tamoxifen, Dora Richardson Took Her Research Underground
When chemist Dora Richardson’s employer decided to terminate the breast cancer research on the drug Tamoxifen in the early 1970s, she and her colleagues continued the work in secret.
The Forgotten Developer of Tamoxifen, a Lifesaving Breast Cancer Therapy
Her name was on the patent for tamoxifen, but Dora Richardson’s story was lost until now