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Between the 1960s and the mid-1980s, dozens of women worked #AtCERN as “scanners”. Their job consisted in identifying the trajectories of the particles in the images taken inside the bubble chambers. “Scanning” took place around the clock. The work was done manually, using a pencil and a sheet of paper to note down the coordinates of where the interactions had taken place and a description of the interactions. The shifts only lasted four hours since scanners worked in complete darkness, which put a lot of strain on the eyes.