The Crying Window: Memoir of a Female Scientist Looking for Truth by Helene Z. Hill, PhD

How does a debutante become a scientist? And what happens when she uncovers the dark underbelly of academic research?

In The Crying Window, renowned radiation biologist and professor emerita Dr. Helene Z. Hill shares her extraordinary, decades-spanning journey where she went from cocktail dresses and finishing schools to Harvard labs and whistleblower lawsuits. With unflinching candor, she recounts navigating a male-dominated field, raising four children, surviving institutional betrayal, and speaking out against scientific fraud when few dared to listen.

This memoir is a firsthand account of the persistent sexism and systemic failures women in science continue to face. It’s also a reflection on integrity; what it costs, and why it matters.

For readers of Lab Girl, Hidden Figures, and The Woman Who Smashed Codes, this is an essential story of courage, intellect, and the lifelong pursuit of truth. Whether you’re a scientist, academic, or anyone who’s ever felt dismissed for speaking up, Dr. Hill’s story will resonate deeply.

A searing personal narrative and a timely exposé, The Crying Window calls us to rethink how science is done and who gets to do it.

Dr. Helene Z. Hill received a Ph.D. in biology from Brandeis University in 1964. She was a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard and the University of Colorado Medical Schools, and she rose through the ranks from assistant to full professor at the Medical Schools of the University of Colorado Washington University in St. Louis Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia and the New Jersey Medical School, in Newark, New Jersey. 

Dr. Hill retired in December 2016 and is Professor Emerita at Rutgers-The State University of New Jersey.

Dr. Hill has co-authored more than eighty scientific publications, was awarded the Smith College Medal in 1997. 

Dr. Hill has written Hidden Data: The Blind Eye of Science (2016), and co-wrote with Amy Yarzinske, Cover-Up: Collusion in the Halls of Academia (Amazon, 2021).

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