"You feel like you have to represent your entire race and descend the racial stereotypes … especially in nuclear and radiochemistry."
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Clarice Phelps
Clarice Evone Phelps is an American nuclear chemist researching the processing of radioactive transuranic elements at the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). She was part of ORNL's team that collaborated with the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research to discover tennessine (element 117).
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