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The Woman Who Knocked Science Sideways

Lost Women of Science

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Is There a DIY Aspect to Experimental Physics?

There was a very sort of DIY aspect to experimental physics. My grandmother worked on an experiment in 1956, 1957 that proved a theory about the non-conservation of parity. And so the fact that she's sitting on a canister and she's playing with the wires herself is very true to what experimental physics was.

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