The Woman Who Crossed Out the Stars
In 1925, Cecilia Payne wrote what would be called the most brilliant astronomy thesis ever written. She proved stars were made of hydrogen and helium. The scientific establishment said she was wrong. So she added a line to her own thesis calling her discovery "almost certainly not real." Four years later, a powerful male astronomer published the same conclusion and credited her in a footnote. Harvard didn't make her a professor for another thirty-one years.
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