Tucson Festival of Books

Scientific Trailblazers


Join authors Olivia Campbell and Melody Glenn as they discuss the perseverance and courage to create change demonstrated by exceptional women in physics who defied the Nazis, and an extraordinary, practicing physician treating addiction.


Panelists
Olivia Campbell

Olivia Campbell is The New York Times bestselling author of "Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine" and "Sisters in Science: How Four Women Physicists Escaped Nazi Germany and Made Scientific History....

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Melody Glenn

Dr. Melody Glenn is a physician and the author of "Mother of Methadone," a hybrid memoir/biography that weaves her own story with that of Dr. Marie Nyswander, the radical physician who developed methadone maintenance in the 1960s....

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Books:
Sisters in Science
How Four Women Physicists Escaped Nazi Germany and Made Scientific History
Olivia Campbell
Science / Medicine / Technology
Harlequin Enterprises ULC
February 2026
ISBN 9780778333395
352 pages
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Mother of Methadone
A Doctor's Quest, a Forgotten History, and a Modern-Day Crisis
Melody Glenn
Memoir / Essays / Creative Nonfiction
Beacon Press
July 2025
ISBN 9780807017760
232 pages
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