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Tag: overlooked women scientists

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Candace Pert: She Found the Receptor, He Got the Prize

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Eunice Foote: She Found the Greenhouse Effect First

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Esther Lederberg: She Built It, He Took the Credit

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Cecilia Payne: She Found What Stars Are Made Of

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Jeanne Baret: The Botanist Erased From the Record

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 Maria Telkes: She Stored the Sun, MIT Fired Her

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Anna Mani: Five Papers, One Thesis, No Degree

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Ida Noddack: She Described Fission Four Years Early

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Yvonne Barr: Her Name Is On The Virus. Not On A Lab.

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Marguerite Perey: She Found Element 87, A Man Read It Out

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Nettie Stevens: The Y Chromosome and the Obituary

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Bibha Chowdhuri: The Physicist Whose Method Won Someone Else a Nobel

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