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Thank you Way sneaks and here's your shmoop to shore

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Brought to you by saturday night live five from mountain

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view It shmoop do your all right here's our question

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Who was the first american woman to earn a ph

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D in psychology and hear the potential answers right All

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right who's stuck tina fey in there Sure she's a

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brilliant woman And she does have a bachelor party in

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drama But last week check she'd only be qualified to

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dole out psychological advice on snl However tina fey is

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still a way better guest and will amina james because

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will it mean james Well she doesn't exist So what

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We can all agree that tina fey should probably play

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a character named will it mean james marie currie on

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the other hand was completely real woman she was also

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the first woman to win a nobel peace prize in

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the first woman to become a professor at the university

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of paris Pretty impressive huh However curious field of study

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had nothing to do with psychology She was a physicist

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and chemist who pioneered research on radio activity We'd like

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to shake her hand but in any hurry to be

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the next radioactive spider man mary whitened culkin's could be

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our answer seeing as she actually completed all the requirements

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for a phd before our actual correct answer did But

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she was refused to phd from harvard Why Because she

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was a woman Fortunately she wasn't denied by the american

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psychology association which she became the first female president of

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ninety five Well that leaves us margaret washed in eighteen

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ninety for cornell university margaret became the first woman in

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the u s to receive her phd in psychology jostle

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served as the second female president of the pta and

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became a leading psychologist best known for her work and

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animal behavior and motor theory Uh all before women even

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had the right to vote and drive something Well yeah

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pretty impressive stuff So when it comes down to it

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we'd rather be analyzed by tina eighteen and we love 00:02:00.349 --> [endTime] you it's much Call us

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