Pioneers
American Astronomer Nancy Grace Roman’s Legacy for Female Pioneers
Nancy Grace Roman was a trailblazer in the field of astronomy, a NASA legend, and a...
Pioneers
MIT’s First Female Student: Ellen Swallow Richards
Ellen Swallow Richards was one of the early pioneering women in stem who advocated for advancing...
Pioneers
Remembering Computer Science Pioneer Frances Allen
Frances Allen was the first woman to win the Turing Award, a prestigious award that is...
Pioneers
Dr. Marie Maynard Daly Paved the Way for Women in Chemistry
Dr. Marie Maynard Daly was the first Black woman in America to receive a Ph.D. in...
Tech
Seymour Cray and the Birth of the Supercomputer
In the beginning, computers were called giant electronic brains. And from the early 1950s on, no...
Pioneers
Remembering Dr. Roger Arliner Young
Learn about the life and legacy of Dr. Roger Arliner Young, the first Black woman to...
Tech
The Turing Test Aims to Understand Advancing Computers
The Turing Test challenges computer scientists to create a program with a conversational ability that a...
Pioneers
Astronaut Kathy Sullivan Reaches the Deepest Point in the Ocean
Astronaut Kathy Sullivan was the first American woman to spacewalk. In 2020, she also became the...
Science
The Higgs Boson and Mystery of Mass
The Higgs boson was the perfect theoretical solution to the mystery of why objects have mass....
Pioneers
Dr. Jane C. Wright Developed Chemotherapy
Dr. Jane C. Wright has been called the "mother of chemotherapy" because of her groundbreaking cancer...
Pioneers
Particle Physics Pion-eers: Mastering the Meson
Particle physics pion-eers Cecil Powell and Hideki Yukawa predicted — and empirically verified — the pi...
Pioneers
The Shapley Curtis Debate of 1920, or How Big Is the Universe?
How did the Shapley-Curtis debate help us better understand the universe?
Environmental Tech
Extreme Citizen Science Underway in the Arctic
Two Norwegian women, Hilde Fålun Strøm and Sunniva Sorby, are taking citizen science to new heights.
Pioneers
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Discovered What Stars Are Made Of
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin discovered what stars are made of, and she did it while facing gender discrimination.