In 2007, she defended a doctoral dissertation in neuroscience at UCLA. Most of Hollywood still thought she was a washed-up child star from a cancelled sitcom. They were wrong. Her name is Mayim Bialik. When Blossom ended in 1995, the industry quietly closed her file. Child actors who disappear are expected to spiral or beg for a comeback. Reinvention, if it happens at all, is supposed to be cosmetic. Mayim Bialik chose something the industry did not know how to process. She l