Lost Women of Science Conversations: The Exceptions

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BONUS: Agnes Pockels and the Kitchen Sink Myth

This bonus episode is a co-production with Distillations, a podcast produced by the Science History Institute.Agnes Pockels did pioneering work in surface science. Her invention, the Pockels Trough, became the basis for an instrument that helped Katherine Burr Blodgett and Irving ...  Show more

Layers of Brilliance: Vanishing Act -- Episode Six

How is a legacy preserved, and how is someone forgotten? Determined to make a final name for himself, Irving Langmuir ventures into science that even he might classify as pathological wishful thinking, while Katharine continues her work as the diligent experimenter. But her contr ...  Show more

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