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Originally Posted by Grand_Lunar
I've got a couple;
Leona Woods and, best of all, Margaret Burbidge.
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Heh. Quoting from Wikipedia's article on the latter--
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She was turned down for a Carnegie Fellowship in 1945 because this fellowship would have meant that she would have had to observe at Mount Wilson observatory, which was reserved for men only at that time.
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(Incidentally, I can assure you that Mount Wilson is hardly in the middle of nowhere, on account of its official address is Pasadena, California; the railway that used to take people up the mountain starts about two or three miles north of my mom's house, which means perhaps fifteen miles from downtown Los Angeles!)
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"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"
"You can't erase icing."
"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"
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