Agnes Pockels’ pioneering work was unfairly dismissed by tropes about women’s domestic roles

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Agnes Pockels’ pioneering work was unfairly dismissed by tropes about women’s domestic roles

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Agnes Pockels and the kitchen sink myth

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Agnes Pockels achievements in surface science have long been overshadowed by a popular and likely untrue story that she became interested in the subject while doing the dishes

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