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Wow! There is a whole roster of woman scientists that were denied a Nobel Prize and this one seems to be the most appalling one! And I had never heard about her
by lynguist 3y ago
Wow! There is a whole roster of woman scientists that were denied a Nobel Prize and this one seems to be the most appalling one! And I had never heard about her before. I knew about one other though:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Bell_Burnell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Bell_Burnell
The discoverer of the pulsar, for which the Nobel Prize was awarded to two others - her PhD supervisor and an astronomer.
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I want to admit: when I clicked the link to the Wikipedia article of Cecilia Payne I expected some really minor quirky historical figure – not the literal discoverer of the sun’s composition.
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- pessimist 3y agoHard to say its the most appalling. Two more appalling omissions are Lisa Meitner for nuclear fission, and Chien-Shiung Wu for parity violation, since effectively others were given the prize for the work and their contributions overlooked.
- pbhjpbhj 3y agoI'd not heard of Chieng-Shiung Wu, so I have reading to do. Fwiw, it's _Lise_ Meitner.
- viksit 3y agothanks for the thread. fascinating reading - also just submitted a link about women who didn’t win the prize but deserved it.
- Arete314159 3y agoIf you want to be constantly irritated, read about Rosalind Franklin. (And yes, I know she died before the Nobels were announced, that's not the point.)
- mongol 3y agoWhat is the point? Something unrelated to the Nobel Prize?