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1859-1862: John Tyndall credited for discovery.
2011: Foote’s earlier role revealed in this article: searchanddiscovery.com/documents/2011…
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1992: Williams emails Kip Thorne her dissertation+postdoc proposal. Thorne takes William’s idea and prevents her from working on it.
arxiv.org/pdf/physics/04…
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6) 1891: w/o formal training, Agnes Pockels invents slide trough for measuring surface tension, publishes in Nature. 1933: Irving Langmuir wins Nobel based on findings w/ updated “Irving trough.” (Pockels died in 1935.)
nature.com/articles/04343…
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