Bob Lynn
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Bob Lynn
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· 10d
Elizabeth Wagner Reed: The Geneticist Who Mapped Alleles and Historical Absences
From fruit fly genetics to forgotten women scientists, Elizabeth Wagner Reed transformed both laboratory research and historical scholarship. In this candid interview, she reveals her groundbreakin…
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Bob Lynn
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· 11d
Joan Clarke: The Mathematician Whose Quiet Algebra Turned the Tide at Sea
In this compelling interview, Joan Clarke reveals the mathematical precision behind her wartime cryptanalysis at Bletchley Park, where her mastery of Banburismus helped crack Enigma naval codes and…
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Bob Lynn
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· 12d
Dina St Johnston: Britain’s First Software House Founder Who Industrialised Code
Dina St Johnston founded Britain’s first independent software house in 1959, developing high-reliability programming practices for defence and railway systems. This interview explores her met…
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Bob Lynn
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· 13d
Mary Coombs: The Business Coder Who Proved Computers Weren’t Just for Science Labs
Mary Coombs, the first woman to program a commercial computer, discusses her groundbreaking work on LEO’s payroll systems within extreme 2KB memory constraints. She reveals programming techni…
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Bob Lynn
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· 14d
Ruby Payne-Scott: Australia’s First Radio Astronomer Erased by Marriage Bar Discrimination
Ruby Payne-Scott, Australia’s first radio astronomer, discusses her groundbreaking interferometry work that opened new cosmic windows whilst battling institutional discrimination. From wartim…
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Bob Lynn
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· 15d
Bob Lynn
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· 15d
Elizabeth Rona: The Forgotten Nuclear Expert Whose Fingerprints Shape Modern Science
Dr Elizabeth Rona perfected polonium separation techniques that proved crucial to the Manhattan Project, then transformed marine geology through uranium-thorium dating methods. This interview explo…
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Bob Lynn
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· 16d
Cecilia Berdichevsky: Argentina’s First Computer Programmer Who Coded Computing History
Cecilia Berdichevsky transformed from accountant to Argentina’s first computer programmer at 31, mastering the pioneering Clementina system in 1961. This intimate conversation explores her te…
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Bob Lynn
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· 17d
Vera Faddeeva: The Soviet Mathematician Who Built Algorithms Before Laptops
Soviet mathematician Vera Faddeeva (1906-1983) developed foundational computational methods for linear algebra decades before modern computers existed. This interview explores her groundbreaking al…
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Bob Lynn
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· 18d
Rózsa Péter: Mother of Recursion Theory Who Laid Computing’s Mathematical Foundations
Rózsa Péter transformed abstract recursive function theory into the mathematical foundation of modern computing. Despite facing career barriers under Hungary’s Jewish Laws, she developed eleg…
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Bob Lynn
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· 19d
Mary Cartwright: The Mathematician Who Built Chaos Theory’s Hidden Foundations
Dame Mary Cartwright reflects on her groundbreaking 1940s collaboration with Littlewood that laid chaos theory’s foundations through nonlinear differential equations research. She discusses n…
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Bob Lynn
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· 20d
Vera C. Rubin: The Astronomer Who Revealed Dark Matter’s Hidden Universe
This interview with astronomer Vera C. Rubin explores her groundbreaking discovery of dark matter through galaxy rotation curves, her battles against institutional discrimination, and her collabora…
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Bob Lynn
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· 21d
Jewel Plummer Cobb: From Melanoma Research to Transforming Universities for Future Scientists
Dr Jewel Plummer Cobb discusses her groundbreaking tissue culture methods that enabled personalised cancer treatment decades before precision medicine emerged. From studying melanin’s protect…
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Bob Lynn
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· 22d
Muriel Barker Glauert: The Hidden Mathematician Who Transformed Aerodynamic Measurement Theory
An interview with Barker Glauert, the mathematician who clarified pitot-tube measurement theory at low speeds in 1922. Working at Farnborough’s Royal Aircraft Establishment, her viscous flow …
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Bob Lynn
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· 24d
Flossie Wong-Staal: The Scientist Who Sequenced a Crisis and Reshaped Medicine
Dr Flossie Wong-Staal, the molecular biologist who first cloned HIV, discusses her journey from Hong Kong refugee to AIDS crisis hero. She reveals the technical breakthroughs behind proving HIV cau…
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