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The Matilda Effect
Hilde Mangold: The Nobel Was Her Experiment
Elizebeth Friedman: Hoover Took the Credit
Candace Pert: She Found the Receptor, He Got the Prize
Eunice Foote: She Found the Greenhouse Effect First
Esther Lederberg: She Built It, He Took the Credit
Cecilia Payne: She Found What Stars Are Made Of
Maria Telkes: She Stored the Sun, MIT Fired Her
Ida Noddack: She Described Fission Four Years Early
Marietta Blau: She Left Vienna. Her Data Stayed.
Nettie Stevens: The Y Chromosome and the Obituary
Bibha Chowdhuri: The Physicist Whose Method Won Someone Else a Nobel
Marthe Gautier: The Woman Who Found the Chromosome and Lost the Credit
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