The Lost Women of Science Initiative is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit with two overarching and interrelated missions: to tell the story of female scientists who made groundbreaking achievements in their fields—yet remain largely unknown to the general public—and to inspire girls and young women to embark on careers in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math).
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
Inge Lehmann and Earth’s deepest Secret
Science writer Hanne Strager explores how the trailblazing Danish seismologist Inge Lehmann overcame self-doubt to discover that Earth has a solid inner core, overturning the long-held belief that it was liquid
Agnes Pockels’ pioneering work was unfairly dismissed by tropes about women’s domestic roles
Agnes Pockels achievements in surface science have long been overshadowed by a popular and likely untrue story that she became interested in the subject while doing the dishes
Why did the public forget Katharine Burr Blodgett’s brilliant legacy?
We trace the final chapter of Katharine Burr Blodgett’s career, her retirement from GE and her disappearance from public memory
Katharine Burr Blodgett kept an inner struggle out of sight as she made history in the laboratory
At the height of her career, chemist and physicist Katharine Burr Blodgett faced challenges that not even her closest colleagues suspected
Katharine Burr Blodgett made a breakthrough when she discovered ‘invisible glass’
When Katharine Burr Blodgett discovered nonreflecting glass, the General Electric Company’s public relations machine made her a star
Katharine Burr Blodgett’s brilliance had to fit into the role of the only woman in a lab filled with men—it was the air she breathed
From Schenectady, N.Y., to the University of Cambridge, Katharine Burr Blodgett’s brilliance impressed the world’s leading physicists
Katharine Burr Blodgett’s brilliant career began at the ‘House of Magic’
When a young Katharine Burr Blodgett joined future Nobel Prize winner Irving Langmuir at the General Electric Company’s industrial research laboratory in Schenectady, N.Y, it was the start of her brilliant career
The chemical genius of Katharine Burr Blodgett
The story of a woman whose discoveries in materials science quietly shape our everyday world but whose legacy was long eclipsed by the famous scientist she worked with at the General Electric Company
This New Book for Young Readers Brings the Stories of 10 Remarkable Women to Life
Ten great stories about 10 forgotten female scientists that we hope will inspire middle school readers to pursue their own curiosity and get involved in STEM fields
When Susan Wojcicki Discovered She Had Lung Cancer, She Decided to Find Out Why
After her shocking lung cancer diagnosis, the late Susan Wojcicki dedicated herself to fighting the disease and looking for answers
What Causes Cancer? Maud Slye Thought She Had the Answer and a Way to Stop It
After studying mice in the 1910s, Maude Slye concluded that vulnerability to cancer was hereditary. She thought she had a solution to eliminate it, but she made some crucial mistakes
An Opera Explores the Story of Rosalind Franklin and the Discovery of DNA
Betrayal, ambition and the double helix: turning Rosalind Franklin’s story and the discovery of the structure of DNA into an opera
Computer Punch Cards, Coding Pipeline Problems, and the Future of Women in AI
Carla Brodley, founding executive director of the Center for Inclusive Computing at Northeastern University, explains how to make computer science education more accessible to everyone
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
The Weather Expert Who Answered the $64,000 Question
As the first trained Black TV meteorologist, June Bacon-Bercey always worked to help women and people of color to follow in her footsteps
Mildred Weeks Wells’s Work on Airborne Transmission Could Have Saved Many Lives—If the Scientific Establishment Listened
Mildred Weeks Wells and her husband figured out that disease-causing pathogens can spread through the air like smoke
Marie Curie’s Mentorship Led to Networks of Support for Female Scientists
Author Dava Sobel discusses how she discovered the many forgotten female scientists who were mentored by Marie Curie in early 20th-century Paris
Long after Her Tragic Death, We Follow in the Footsteps of the Dominican Republic’s First Female Doctor
The regime of dictator Rafael Leónidas Trujillo all but erased Andrea Evangelina Rodríguez Perozo’s legacy after she died. But since his assassination in 1961, Dominicans have been gradually reclaiming her story
Pioneering Female Doctor Evangelina Rodríguez Faced a Dictator’s Reign of Terror
Beginning in the 1930s, the work—and eventually the life—of Andrea Evangelina Rodríguez Perozo, the Dominican Republic’s first female doctor, became threatened by the country’s then new dictator
Rebel Doctor Evangelina Rodríguez Improved Lives and Courted Controversy on her Return to the Dominican Republic
Andrea Evangelina Rodríguez Perozo started innovative health programs on her return from France in 1925, but her advocacy for sex workers and contraception soon plunged her into controversy
Evangelina Rodríguez Traveled to Paris to Revolutionize Health Care in the Dominican Republic
Andrea Evangelina Rodríguez Perozo, the Dominican Republic’s first female doctor, raised the funds to set sail for Paris so that she can learn about the latest advances in women’s health
Evangelina Rodríguez Led an Extraordinary Life as the Dominican Republic’s First Female Doctor
Born into poverty and abandoned by her parents, Andrea Evangelina Rodríguez Perozo rises from a life selling sweets in the street to become the first female Dominican doctor in 1911
What Was It like to Be a Female Doctor during the Ming Dynasty?
A Chinese medical textbook published in 1511 led to a novel about an all-but-forgotten female doctor who practiced during the Ming Dynasty