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Katie Hafner

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Journalist & author. 1st novel, The Boys, (7/26/22) from @SPIEGELandGRAU. Pod host (@LostWomenofSci). #obits for @NYTimes. Proud mom of newly minted physician.
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The paleoneurologist saved by her science

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By Katie Hafner Verified, Elah Feder
| Scientific American Verified
Johanna Gabriela Ottilie “Tilly” Edinger dedicated her career to studying ancient brains. It saved her life How much can you understand about a brain when that brain is long gone? Johanna Gabriela Ottilie “Tilly” Edinger, a Jewish paleontologist, used fossilized skulls to study the evolution of brains. That research allowed her to escape Nazi Germany in 1939 and to create a new subdivision of paleontology: paleoneurology. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST TRANSCRIPT Elah Feder: In November, 1938, it was final.
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The programmer whose code underpins the Internet

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By Katie Hafner Verified, Samia Bouzid, Laura Isensee Verified
| Scientific American Verified
Sharla Boehm, a math teacher, spent her summers coding. She'd go on to build what would eventually evolve into the Internet Sharla Boehm earned a teaching degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, before she channeled her talent for math into computer programming. While working at the RAND Corporation, she built a groundbreaking simulation, originally conceived to strengthen military communications during the cold war.
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Katharine Burr Blodgett’s story shows how a brilliant legacy can be forgotten

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By Katie Hafner Verified, Natalia Sánchez Loayza, Sophia Levin, Hannah Sammut
| Scientific American Verified
How is a legacy preserved, and how is someone forgotten? Determined to make a final name for himself, Nobel Prize–winning chemist Irving Langmuir ventured into science that many would classify as what he himself called “pathological science,” or “wishful thinking,” while chemist and physicist Katharine Burr Blodgett continued her work as a diligent experimenter. But Blodgett’s contributions faded from both the General Electric Company’s and the public’s memory.
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