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Knowledge Gatherer: Portrait of a Scientist's Wife in Victorian England

When Dehn Gilmore, professor of English at Caltech, was investigating ideas for her next book, she had to look no further than her own family tree. As the great-great-granddaughter of German-born British scientist Sir Arthur Schuster—a Victorian-era physicist who coined the term "antimatter," popularized the X-ray in England, and built one of the largest physics labs in the world, among other…

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