I had no idea that at that time, according to Dr. Jamie Alexander's archive of African-American women in physics, only 18 black women in the United States had ever earned a PhD in a physics-related discipline, and that the first black woman to graduate with a PhD in an astronomy-related field did so just one year before my birth.
当年的我，还完全不知道， 根据杰米·亚历山大博士针对 从事物理工作的非裔美籍女性的研究， 在美国，只有18名黑人女性 在物理学相关学科 获得了博士学位， 而第一位获得天文学相关领域 博士学位的黑人女性 是在我出生前一年才毕业的。