Template:Did you know nominations/Moon Duchin

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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:25, 7 January 2017 (UTC)

Moon Duchin[edit]

  • ... that mathematician Moon Duchin was inspired to break gender barriers in mathematics by a book on baseball player Jackie Robinson's struggles against racism? Source: "She was fascinated at the time by a book on Jackie Robinson breaking the color line in baseball, and so "I wanted to blaze a trail as a woman in math—once I decided I probably couldn't be a baseball player," she says.", Scientific American.

Created by David Eppstein (talk). Self-nominated at 21:35, 14 December 2016 (UTC).

Interesting life, on good sources, no copyio obvious. Hook interesting and sourced, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:39, 19 December 2016 (UTC)