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National Society of Black Physicists President Renée Horton talks with Symmetry about finding a place to belong in physics. Recognized as gifted but frustrated by a hearing condition she did not yet understand, Renée Horton dropped out of college at age 18. When she returned a decade later, she was raising three kids on her own. A chance encounter with the National Society of Black Physicists gave Horton a new vision for her future. She went on to become the first African American to earn her ...