THIS STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING

Female astronomers connected the dots

By Simon Singh
Globe Correspondent / February 1, 2005

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When Harvard president Lawrence H. Summers suggested that there might be ''innate" differences between women and men that affect their success in the sciences, it brought to mind an extraordinary story concerning women scientists at Harvard at the start of the 20th century. (Full article: 674 words)

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