Pause and think about your field – do you know how many major contributions by someone from a marginalized group were overlooked in their time or never credited for the work? In the wake of the novel Hidden Figures and its subsequent motion picture, contributions are increasingly being recognized years later and rightfully attributed to those who did the work. This short article from National Geographic goes into more detail on hidden figures in many of our fields .
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