The National Insitute of Health has replaced 14 principal investigators (PIs) who had received agency grants, and 21 PIs were disciplined or fired by their employers. Fourteen people were banned from participating in NIH peer-review panels. NIH is a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the nation’s medical research agency.

Nature Magazine is shining a spotlight on some of the women who revolutionized our understanding of the elements. While Marie Curie is the most celebrated, for her double Nobel-prizewinning research on radioactivity and for discovering polonium and radium, stories of other women’s roles are scarce. So, too, is an appreciation of the skills required, including tenacity and diligence in performing experiments, sifting through data and reassessing theories.

Some argue simply that the prizes tend to recognize work from an era when the representation of women and non-Western researchers in science was even lower than it is today. But studies repeatedly show that systemic biases remain in the sciences, and the slow pace of progress was especially evident in 2017, when there were no female laureates for the second year in a row.

Isabel Briggs Myers was an autodidact who eschewed formal psychological methods of test development and validation. She became interested in personology, as she called it, largely as a result of an obsession her mother, Katharine Cook Briggs, had with the ideas of psychoanalyst Carl Jung.