The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, Mit, and the Fight for Women in Science

The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, Mit, and the Fight for Women in Science

by Kate Zernike
ISBN: 9781982131838
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In 1963, a female student was attending a lecture given by Nobel Prize winner James Watson, then tenured at Harvard. At nineteen, she was struggling to define her future. She had given herself just ten years to fulfill her professional ambitions before starting the family she was expected to have. For women at that time, a future on the usual path of academic science was unimaginable—but during that lecture, young Nancy Hopkins fell in love with the promise of genetics. Confidently believing science to be a pure meritocracy, she embarked on a career.

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