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Molecular Biologist Nancy Hopkins Took on M.I.T. for Discrimination against Female Scientists
Nancy Hopkins, a molecular biologist who made major discoveries in cancer genetics, became an unlikely activist in her early 50s. She had always believed that if you did great science, you would get the recognition you deserved. But after years of …