1836: A teenage girl with blue-grey eyes and an oceanic mind is bent over an astronomy book, preparing to revolutionize our understanding of the planet.

No university anywhere in the world would admit her.
No scientific society would grant her membership.

Still, Eunice Newton Foote would go on to become the first scientist to link atmospheric carbon dioxide levels to rising planetary temperature https://www.themarginalian.org/2023/09/12/eunice-newton-foote/