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Dubliner Anne Kernan was involved in the Cern research that won a Nobel Prize, yet her work is little known here now, writes JOANNE HUNT

‘RESEARCH LADY” is the chosen e-mail nickname of 77-year-old Anne Kernan, but as one of the physicists whose work led to a discovery that won a Nobel Prize, it is a title that’s far too modest.