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During World War II (1939–45), women undertook many roles that were previously exclusively male, including roles as scientific researchers. American crystallographer Isabella L. Karle developed processes to isolate plutonium chloride from impure plutonium oxide while working on the Manhattan Project. American mathematician Grace Murray Hopper worked for the U.S. Navy as one of the first computer programmers, and American biologist Rachel Carson worked for the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries (from 1940 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) as an aquatic biologist. In the postwar years many female wart...

Lise Meitner solved the problem of nuclear fission—and although she never got the Nobel, she is the only woman outside of mythology to have an element named after her alone

From the blog of Elchanan Poupko at The Times of Israel

The decision comes eight years after the department declassified documents related to a Cold War hearing for Oppenheimer, who was accused of having communist sympathies.

Today is the 300TH day of 2022. There are 65 days left in the year. TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT 1960: George William Gordon House (also called Gordon House), the Jamaican Parliament building, is named...