Frank A. brought my attention to this video on Marie Tharpe at the New York Times.
Other scientists dismissed her work as "girl talk," but she refused to back down -- and changed the way we see the planet.
You can also read more about her here. In the words of the late James Brown, "This is a man's world, this is a man's world, But it wouldn't be nothing, nothing without a woman or a girl."
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