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Edith Clarke: An Engineer No One Would Hire
Tapputi: The First Chemist Named in History
Hilde Mangold: The Nobel Was Her Experiment
Sophie Germain: Barred, She Signed a Man’s Name
Candace Pert: She Found the Receptor, He Got the Prize
Esther Lederberg: She Built It, He Took the Credit
Hertha Ayrton: The Fellow the Royal Society Refused
Jeanne Baret: The Botanist Erased From the Record
Anna Mani: Five Papers, One Thesis, No Degree
Ida Noddack: She Described Fission Four Years Early
Yvonne Barr: Her Name Is On The Virus. Not On A Lab.
Marguerite Perey: She Found Element 87, A Man Read It Out
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