NYTimes.com: The Royal Society, perhaps the world’s most renowned fellowship of scientists, made its debut in 1660. With the sole exception of Queen Victoria, named a patron of the society, it did not admit a woman until 1945. Canada’s Royal Society barred women until 1938, and France’s Academy of Sciences would not elect a woman to full membership until 1979, blackballing Marie Curie along the way.
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