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    1. "[S]eeking better telescopes and clearer skies, Margaret Burbidge applied for a fellowship ... at Mount Wilson Observatory, near Pasadena, Calif. Her application was declined. Women, she was informed, were not permitted to use Mount Wilson’s telescopes." nytimes.com/2020/04/06/science/space/e-margaret-burbidge-dead.html
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    "She managed to gain access to Mount Wilson some years later, but only by posing as her husband’s assistant." This article recounts a litany of things denied to her because of her gender. I'm glad she lived to see the beginning of the end of this rubbish.
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