Phyllis Fleming, 84; pioneer among women in physics
As a teenage girl growing up in 1930s Shelbyville, Ind., Phyllis J. Fleming made 10-cent chocolate sodas at the counter of her father’s drug store and dreamed of studying to become a physicist. (Full article: 837 words)
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