In a 1992 article for Physics World, Tim Berners-Lee wrote about the difficulties of managing the explosion of information available through his new invention, the World Wide Web. He saw that while ...

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What does a female scientist have to do to get her own Wikipedia page? Literally win the Nobel Prize. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said Strickland’s work had “revolutionized laser physics.” ...

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It was about five in the morning in Ontario, Canada, when Donna Strickland’s phone rang. The Nobel Prize committee was on the line in Stockholm, calling to tell her she had won the prize in physics.

When Marie Curie won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1903, women couldn’t vote, couldn’t graduate from prestigious universities and weren’t allowed to become Fellows of Learned Societies. When Maria ...

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