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> Karen Uhlenbeck, whom no one has heard of, but who was... Not sure what you mean: she's pretty famous from having won the Abel Prize (and being the first wom
by eindiran 7y ago
> Karen Uhlenbeck, whom no one has heard of, but who was...
Not sure what you mean: she's pretty famous from having won the Abel Prize (and being the first woman to do so).
- rsj_hn 7y agoRight, in the scientific community, but not many people know about the Abel prize or have heard of Uhlenbeck's bubbling results.
- eindiran 7y agoThat's fair point. I interpreted your comment to mean that she was unduly unrecognized in the academic world, but I agree that venturing out into the wider world, she's probably not well known at all.
- rsj_hn 7y agoCorrect, Uhlenbeck was given the proper recognition in the mathematical community, but people outside that community don't know her. She is not an icon for Women in Science and neither is someone like Emmy Noether, or even in the world of cryptography, someone like Shafi Goldwasser -- they are all unknown. But instead an actress with zero scientific research publications, no PhD, and just this one piano roll patent that she sent, unsolicited, to the Navy which rejected it -- she is high on the marquee for "women in science". That's a shame.