In a profile that discusses the project, her career, and breaking new ground as a female scientist, Harrison recalls that she didn’t come to Dartmouth intending to study physics: “Then I took freshman physics, and I had a really fantastic teacher. I had him for three or four terms, and the whole time I kept thinking, ‘How can everybody not want to understand all the weird ways the universe works?’”
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