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When I was a kid learning physics in high school there were a few names that I had heard a lot like

Hubble, Fineman, Einstein, Newton, and trading earth, and they're all men.

Sheoheni Gosh had a similar experience.

She's a quantum physicist and a physics and computer science professor at Wilfred Loyer University. And she remembers

remembers learning about all these men and being like,

hold up, only men? There has to be more to the story.

I was certain there must have been other women before me who were interested in physics.

And the more I dug, the more I found that we don't tell their stories.

That's when Chohini started thinking she wanted to tell these stories. She found one of her favorite stories as she was forging her own

path in physics as a grad student at the University of New Mexico working in

their quantum computing research group.

Schoheny was digging through the Apollo Lunar Program's history.

That led me to the history of Fairchild, which was a company that was building these computer chips back then.

Fairchild Semiconductor was an early ancestor of Intel, and they had a factory in

Shiprock, a local town, on land that belongs to the Navajo Nation. They employed primarily

Navajo women to produce these computer chips, which they viewed as unskilled labor.

There were no labor laws, there were no unions, so they didn't have to worry about you know fair wages

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