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When it comes to a cultural understanding of who can be a scientist, the idea that it's largely a career for men tends to still dominate.

This season, the podcast Lost Women of Science, digs into the life of the American physicist and chemist, Catherine Burb Lodgeett, whose work helped pioneer nanotechnology a century before its time. I talked to Katie Hafner, a host and co-executive producer of Lost Women of Science,

about this new season.

Thank you so much for joining us.

Oh, thanks.

So your newest multi-episode season, Layers of Brilliance,

The Chemical Genius of Catherine Burb Wollett,

can you tell me the impetus what was behind it?

What was it about her story that was so compelling to you? Well, actually, to be super honest about

this, I was not that excited about doing a whole multi-episode season on Catherine because

it takes so much time. And it's really like researching a book. It has taken us months. We've been at this for almost a year on this season. I kid you not. However, my co-executive producer, Amy Scharf, for years, ever since we started five years ago, has been, like, lobbying for Catherine Burb Blanche. I'm like, okay, all right, already. Okay, all right. I surrender. And one of the

reasons she wanted to do a season on Catherine is that Catherine worked at the General Electric

Research Laboratory. And so in looking at her, we were going to be looking at the whole history

of industrial research labs, which is really interesting. Because there was a

time in this country when big corporations put a lot of money and resources into pure research.

So that's something that, especially in today's climate, it bears kind of reminding the public that that's what a lot of companies

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