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The USPS has released four new Forever stamps featuring US scientists.

A female physicist, a male botanist, a Spanish-born male biochemist, and a male chemist: not a horrid attempt at diversity in people and disciplines. Only three Nobel-prizewinners, though, since there’s no Nobel for botanists, even if Asa Gray hadn’t died before the first prizes were awarded.

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