Education

The Matilda Project highlights historical sidelined women in science

Hindustan Times15m
THE BRIEF
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Canadian brothers Shehroze Saharan and Shehryar Saharan founded The Matilda Project online initiative to document the unacknowledged contributions of women in science.

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The project's documented profiles include physicist Chien-Shiung Wu, who confirmed parity conservation but was excluded from the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics.

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Other figures featured include NASA aerospace engineer Christine Darden and Indian conservation ecologist Latika Nath.