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Speaking of women in physics: Dr. Melba Phillips. Phillips earned her PhD on nuclear physics with Oppenheimer in 1933 & became a professor at Brooklyn College in 1938. A unionist, in 1952 she was fired after taking the 5th at a McCarthyist committee. She didn‘t get a faculty job again until 1962. 🧪⚛️
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Melba Phillips - Wikipedia
