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@nell_sci_npr on Twitter The new Nobel laureate in physics, Andrea Ghez, indirectly inspired an important test in science writing, the “Finkbeiner Test,” created to help reporters avoid gender bias. To pass this test an article about a female scientist cannot mention that she is a woman, her husband’s job, her childcare arrangements, how she nurtures underlings, how she was taken aback by the competitiveness of her field, how she is a role model for other women, how she is the “first woman to…”