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Joking about ScienceITHACA, NEW YORK – An apocryphal story sometimes heard among physicists concerns a toast, proposed by his Cambridge University colleagues, to J. J. Thomson’s discovery of the electron in 1897: “To the electron: may it never be of use to anyone!”Pure mathematicians supposedly tell a similar joke about their profession.

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So I get a basic idea as to what you might be about, what you might like, what you might do as a profession, etc., etc.

My father, a mechanic by profession, worked very hard to send me to school.

And the problem is this: Women are not making it to the top of any profession anywhere in the world.

It also helped me to avoid the trap people in my profession sometimes fall into when trying to innovate, where we are quick to apply a technology before we've firmly grasped the problem at hand.

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