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ren't even admitted as undergraduates at Ivy League institu- tions until the late 1960s. Almost thirty years after Wu arrived from China to study at Berkeley in 1936, she noted in a Newsweek article about her, "It is shameful that there are so few women in science.... In China there are many, many women

evidence, once wrote a hoax paper while a postdoc poking fun at a paper he deemed ridiculous by the famous physicist Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington. Eddington claimed to "derive" a fundamental constant of electromagne- tism using some fundamental principles, but Bethe correctly viewed the claim as nothing