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Melissa E.B. Franklin is used to being at the forefront of particle physics: Discover Magazine described her as one of “the most important women in science” in November 2002. But earlier this week, Franklin, who holds the Mallinckrodt chair in physics at Harvard, found herself at the cutting edge of the English language when—in an interview with the Boston Globe—she described University President Lawrence H. Summers’ remarks on women in science as a “resignable thing...
...those things you wish you hadn’t said,” Franklin told The Crimson Wednesday night—not because she regrets the sentiment, but because she appeared to have coined a brand new word...
...checked three dictionaries, all of them online,” Limbaugh said. “‘Resignable’ is not in any of them. So this erudite, elitist professor at Harvard used a word that doesn’t exist.” He accused Franklin of filling young minds with “mush...
Melissa E.B. Franklin, the Mallinckrodt professor of physics, who has been one of the president’s most vehement critics this week, called Summers’ letter “a great step forward...
...There are probably quite a few members of the Harvard faculty who actually believe that there is an innate difference between girls and boys in science skill,” Franklin said. “Now that this is brought up, maybe all the ensuing discussion will be able to convince those people otherwise...