'A Culture That Tolerates Discrimination'

DONNA J. NELSON, associate professor of chemistry, University of Oklahoma

Age: "I don't want to say. It can impact things like if I'm looking for a job or being nominated for awards. I'm dead serious. Age discrimination is still there."

Ph.D.: University of Texas at Austin, 1980

Guggenheim fellow, 2003-04

Her research: Uses typical organic chemical reactions to help create molecules useful in biological and materials science.

Background: Her father and

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