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Her work was key to a landmark experiment. She was credited in a footnote.
Saturday, September 5, 2026
Mary Tsingou Menzel, a physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, died at age 97. Menzel conducted computational work on a landmark experiment in the 1950s that was initially credited to male colleagues in published results, with her contribution noted only in a footnote. Her role in the research was formally recognized decades later.
Original reporting: https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2026/09/05/mary-tsingou-menzel-overlooked-contributor-landmark-experiment-dies-97/
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