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Mary K. Gaillard, physicist who broke a ceiling in subatomic research, dies at 86

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Mary K. Gaillard NYT obituary on August 1, 2025 tells a tale of sexism in the sciences. No Nobel for you young lady, wrong gender. Overcoming discrimination in a mostly male preserve, she did groundbreaking work that showed experimentalist physicists where and how to look for new particles.

Attribution Science

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An in-depth article in the Oct 22, 2019 Politico magazine on the emerging science of attribution: The new science fossil fuel companies fear – Researchers can now link weather events to emissions – and to the companies responsible. A string of lawsuits is about to give “attribution science” a real-life test – by ZACK COLMAN … [Read more…]