i wouldn't say she was ignored. this was an important but incremental research. people always assume that landmark discoveries are immediately obvious but real

i wouldn't say she was ignored. this was an important but incremental research. people always assume that landmark discoveries are immediately obvious but really it only appears so after the accumulation of numerous research built on top of it. thomas kuhn wrote that knowledge builds up to a tipping point where the collective intelligence begins a paradigm shift and realize that "oh yea... that was a major discovery"