Lost Women of Science Podcast: Episode 5 is available!

*|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* [View this email in your browser]( With Episode 5 out today, Season 2 of [Lost Women of Science](, “A Grasshopper in Very Tall Grass,” is now available in its entirety. It’s about Klára Dán von Neumann—nicknamed Klári—who wrote the first modern-style code to run on an electronic computer. The purpose of the code was to optimize the design for a hydrogen bomb. Klári’s story gives some surprising context to the early digital age: [women were the first coders](; the nuclear arms race was the force that pushed computing capabilities forward; and nuclear [fission has something in common with the game of solitaire](… It’s also a very human story. [Born to wealthy Jewish parents in Budapest](, Klári fled Europe days before World War II broke out. She moved to Princeton, where her husband, the famous mathematician John von Neumann, worked at the Institute for Advanced Study. Klári entered the workforce doing population research, and her talent for mathematics got her husband’s attention. He brought her into a world of early computing, [vacuum tubes](Na3~QE/UXU2cjZVSEdxMUw2N1lUaGFRNjF1MmdlYXY3WlRtNjdES3B2eE44TFo3dStoWElLWVBjSnNtamQyTDhvWXhqQm1rWUFKS29UY2UxRXphOW9nM1VhbW14Ni8xL1dBRUFHdnVMSU5EL1FYYkE9S0/) and nuclear weapons design, where she made history. As Klári put it in her unfinished memoir—maybe too humbly—she was “an insignificant insect just chirruping around to see where the most fun could be had […] swept up by the hurricane force turbulence of international events and global minds.” Listen to Season 2 now on [scientificamerican.com](. [Listen now]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [LinkedIn]( [Instagram]( [Website]( [Support Lost Women of Science]( Our website is: [](/UXU2cjZVSEdxMUw2N1lUaGFRNjF1MmdlYXY3WlRtNjdES3B2eE44TFo3dStoWElLWVBjSnNtamQyTDhvWXhqQm1rWUFKS29UY2UxRXphOW9nM1VhbW14Ni8xL1dBRUFHdnVMSU5EL1FYYkE9S0/) To view this email as a web page, go [here](. You received this email because you opted-in to receive email from Scientific American. To ensure delivery please add news@email.scientificamerican.com to your address book. [Unsubscribe]( [Manage Email Preferences]( [Privacy Policy]( [Contact Us](