Elayne Clift: A salute to STEM women

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Elayne Clift, who writes about women, culture and social issues from Saxtons River.
Ask any number of people to name a woman who has made a difference in science, technology, engineering or math, now known as STEM, and they are likely to say Marie Curie, who won the Nobel Prize in both physics and chemistry for discovering radium and polonium and for researching treating tumors with radiation.
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