Emma and Emlyn teach each other about historic (and current) women in STEM and remind each other about things they DEF should know.
Episodes
Monday Apr 13, 2020
Monday Apr 13, 2020
Alternate Title: Duke of Occupational Hazards
Emlyn tells Emma about Dr. Alice Hamilton, a scientist, doctor, public health expert, and pioneer in the fields of industrial toxicology and occupational health.
Learn more about us and other women in science at our website www.stemfatalepodcast.com
Sources
Main Story - Alice Hamilton
- “Pandemics Come and Go But Medical Masks are Eternal” by Virginia Postrel, Bloomberg Opinion. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-04-10/medical-face-masks-an-illustrated-history
- “Celebrating the life of Alice Hamilton, founding mother of occupational medicine” by Dr. Howard Markel, PBS. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/celebrating-life-alice-hamilton-founding-mother-occupational-medicine
- “Lead, TNT, and Rayon: Dr. Alice Hamilton’s Battle Against Industrial Poisons” by Dale Debakcsy, Women You Should Know. https://womenyoushouldknow.net/alice-hamiltons-battle-against-industrial-poisons/
- Wikipedia article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Hamilton
Women who Work
Shoutout to Katelyn Allers and her team for devising a new method for measuring wind speeds on brown dwarfs!
- NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "In a first, NASA measures wind speed on a brown dwarf." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 9 April 2020. <www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/04/200409142409.htm>
- Finley, Dave. “Astronomers Measure Wind Speed on a Brown Dwarf.” National Radio Astronomy Observatory, 9 April 2020. https://public.nrao.edu/news/brown-dwarf-wind-speed/
- CalTech’s Cool Cosmos page on Brown Dwarfs (for background info): http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/cosmic_classroom/cosmic_reference/brown_dwarfs.html
Music
“Mary Anning” by Artichoke
“Work” by Rihanna
Cover Image
Photo courtesy of NIH https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Alice_Hamilton#/media/File:Alice_Hamilton.jpg
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