Rossi was a decade older than Lotte and had studied under Lotte’s father at Columbia. Now also a mother of three, she had been content holding positions as a research assistant at three different universities, most recently at the University of Chicago, where her husband was a professor. Then she was told that as a research assistant she could not submit a grant proposal to the National Science Foundation. She asked a male faculty member if he would submit it under his name. He did—then took the money, took over her project, and fired her.
