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HomeMayim Bialik, a neuroscientist by training, portrayed fictional neurobiologist Amy Farrah Fowler on the hit sitcom The Big Bang Theory for nine years. (© Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP Images)

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Mayim Bialik, a neuroscientist by training, portrayed fictional neurobiologist Amy Farrah Fowler on the hit sitcom The Big Bang Theory for nine years. (© Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP Images)

February 10, 2021

Mayim Bialik, a neuroscientist by training, portrayed fictional neurobiologist Amy Farrah Fowler on the hit sitcom The Big Bang Theory for nine years. (© Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP Images)

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