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> Her family was wealthy, and often held parties where Dán would meet many different people from various stations in life.

Family wealth is often ignored in various scientists' biographies. It makes it easier to do science without the pressures of having to think about where the next cheque is going to come from.

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Not only in the hard sciences…

I always smirk when reminded that anti-capitalist Karl Marx never held a job but was always funded by his family-money rich bourgeoisie friend, and married a rich Scotland royal decendant

Generally, a lot of the article has the feel of rewriting the past in order please a modern political discourse.

I didn't really get that (I only skimmed the article). However, it uses a lot of flowery language, which doesn't seem very WP:NPOV.

The character of the language you describe is indeed what gave me that exact feel.

I don’t feel like what I read between the lines of her life and the tone of this article are terribly in line.

What discourse would that be?

Same question here.

The DEI discourse.

> This article is missing information about Work and Notable Achievements.

> The DEI discourse.

I don't see DEI mentioned in the article anywhere.

> > This article is missing information about Work and Notable Achievements.

What is the point of highlighting this string?

What makes you expect that the DEI discourse should be mentioned in the article? - it is after all, well, discourse.

Then it's not clear what your point is.

You still haven't explained your point.

Exhibit one:

> During this time she also wrote the code for the first computer simulation of the Monte Carlo method, which is a method to store and analyze large quantities of data and make predictions on everything from elections to COVID-19 trend forecasting.

UBI, FTW.-

  PS. I get that UBI is controversial.-

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