Physicist recognized for boosting women on Wikipedia

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 Physicist Jess Wade was named today to Nature magazine’s “10 people who mattered this year” list for her work elevating women in science. She’s written hundreds of Wikipedia entries about female scientists to try to combat a massive gender gap both on the site and in science.  

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