Ranked #1
Ep4: Hedy Lamarr
Ep4: Hedy Lamarr
Babes of Science is a podcast about women who made an impact in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics. Learn ... Read more
13 Nov 2015
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9mins
Ranked #2
Ep3: Tilly Edinger
Ep3: Tilly Edinger
Babes of Science is a podcast about women who made an impact in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics. Learn ... Read more
13 Oct 2015
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9mins
Ranked #3
Ep6: Florence Nightingale
Ep6: Florence Nightingale
IN THIS EPISODE Poncie talks about Florence Nightingale, who changed nursing from a field where ladies would hunt for hu... Read more
19 Jan 2016
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11mins
Ranked #4
Ep8: Nettie Stevens
Ep8: Nettie Stevens
Once upon a time, everything from timing to the temperature at conception could get blamed for the sex of a baby. Even t... Read more
18 Mar 2016
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9mins
Ranked #5
Rita Levi-Montalcini
Rita Levi-Montalcini
Rita Levi-Montalcini worked with homemade tools in her bedroom laboratory when she and her family were forced into hidin... Read more
13 Dec 2016
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16mins
Ranked #6
Irène Joliot-Curie
Irène Joliot-Curie
Irène Joliot-Curie found that radioactivity wasn't just something to be found in the earth's elements -- scientists coul... Read more
24 Jan 2017
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17mins
Ranked #7
Ada Lovelace
Ada Lovelace
Ada Lovelace defined modern computing and wrote the first computer program...for an imaginary machine. Because the compu... Read more
4 Oct 2016
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15mins
Ranked #8
Margaret Cavendish
Margaret Cavendish
Margaret Cavendish used her writing to debate philosophy with some of the great thinkers of the scientific revolution. A... Read more
3 Jan 2017
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13mins
Ranked #9
Babes Alive: Brittany Bushnell
Babes Alive: Brittany Bushnell
Imagine you're a PhD student, just getting started. And you realize you can't hear anything out of one ear, and THEN you... Read more
15 Nov 2016
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16mins
Ranked #10
Ep7: Alice Ball
Ep7: Alice Ball
IN THIS EPISODE Poncie talks about Alice Ball, who found one of the first treatments for leprosy. After Alice Ball's met... Read more
22 Feb 2016
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8mins