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Carol Sutton Lewis

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A Public Health Researcher and Her Engineer Husband Found How Diseases Can Spread through Air Decades before the COVID Pandemic

Mildred Weeks Wells and her husband figured out that disease-causing pathogens can spread through the air like smoke

1 year agobyThe Lost Women of Science Initiative Luca Evans Carol Sutton Lewis

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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

1 year agobyThe Lost Women of Science Initiative Laura Isensee Christie Taylor Carol Sutton Lewis

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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

1 year agobyGabriela Saldivia The Lost Women of Science Initiative Carol Sutton Lewis

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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

5 months agobyThe Lost Women of Science Initiative Jenny Dare Carol Sutton Lewis