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And she inspired Joan Feynman: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Feynman

This was the more striking part of all this for me. I've read a lot of (Dick) Feynman biographical material, read his layperson books, his lecture series, etc.

Until today I had no idea he even had a sister, let alone that she also went into physics.

Really? Have you read What Do You Care What Other People Think? Because she's mentioned fairly prominently in the chapter about how he faced down a rent-a-mob accusing him of sexism ('Feynman Sexist Pig!').

(To be clear, Feynman actually was sexist, but not in the way that the rent-a-mob was complaining about.)

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