Introductions Necessary

Dr. Edith Widder is an oceanographer, bioluminescence expert, a certified Scientific Research Pilot for Atmospheric Diving Systems, and an inventor.

In her first year of working at the New York City’s Department of Health diagnostic laboratory, Dr. Anna Wessels Williams would change the world.

Today meet the woman who invented the thread that is used to make Kevlar.

Becoming one of MIT’s youngest full professors at the age of 35, Jackie Yi-Ru Ying is one of the world’s leading experts on nanotechnology.

As a fifty year member of the American Chemical Society, Dr. Betty Harris has been a teacher and researcher since the age of 19.

Beatrix Potter was a naturalist who completed her own amateur mycology research before becoming a bestselling children’s book author.

Ruth E. Dayhoff is a licensed physician and a pioneer in the field of bioinformatics

Many people love to marvel at the beauty of the cosmos that is observable with our eyes – but what about the beauty that is observable with our ears? Dr. Janna Levin says that the universe has a soundtrack that is played on space itself.

July 25th marks the birth of the first child conceived using in vitro fertilization, or IVF, to couple in England. The first American child born by IVF was thanks to the team of Dr. Georgeanna Seegar Jones and her pioneering career in obstetrics and reproductive health.

Bringing the same rigorous standards used in high quality academic research institutions to the FDA, Dr. Frances Kelsey stopped the drug thalidomide from causing serve birth defects in American children and changed the drug approval process at the same time.