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🗓️ 12 April 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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In the newest season of Lost Women of Science, we enter a world of secrecy, computers and nuclear weapons—and see how Klára Dán von Neumann was a part of all of it.

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0:00.0	Hello, 60-second science listeners.
0:03.1	I'm Katie Haffner, the host of Lost Women of Science.
0:07.1	Each season is devoted to the life and work of one scientist
0:11.2	who hasn't gotten the recognition she deserves.
0:15.4	We're calling this season a grasshopper in very tall grass,
0:19.6	and it's all about Clara Don von Neumann.
0:22.6	Clara, as she was called by friends,
0:25.1	was one of the world's first computer programmers.
0:29.1	I've been writing about computers for a really long time.
0:32.7	More than 30 years, in fact,
0:35.3	I even wrote a history of the internet in 1996
0:39.2	called Where Wizards Stay Up Late.
0:41.8	And The Wizards?
0:43.4	All men.
0:45.1	I've been on this beat for so long.
0:47.3	I thought I knew all the major figures,
0:50.0	but then I stumbled upon Clara von Neumann's name this past year,
0:54.8	and I drew a blank.
0:56.8	How had I missed her?
0:59.5	When I asked some big hitters in the computer science world
1:02.6	about her, they all had the same response.
1:05.9	Who?
	...

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