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    <em>The Atlantic </em>Daily: She Didn’t ‘Qualify’ for Her Own Wikipedia Page. Then She Won a Nobel Prize

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    by Shan Wang Oct 02, 2018 3 minutes
    Source: Jeffrey Dastin / Reuters

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    Women on Wikipedia: Donna Strickland became the third woman in history—and the first in 55 years—to win a Nobel Prize in physics, an award she shared with her fellow physicists Gérard Mourou and Arthur Ashkin. A tug-of-war played out in a surprising place: on Wikipedia, where, before her win, the Canadian professor didn’t meet the threshold for getting her own page. On Tuesday, her new page flooded with updates.

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