Despite her tremendous insights, Noether suffered constant discrimination from the male-dominated academic society of her time: she was sometimes not even paid

Despite her tremendous insights, Noether suffered constant discrimination from the male-dominated academic society of her time: she was sometimes not even paid for her work, and when she fled Germany during WW2 the best position she could find was at the women's college Bryn Mawr (in an era when other fleeing German scientists were landing positions at the best American research universities). When she died, the story I recall is that the New York Times printed a very short obituary that mentioned only her brief work as a teacher at Bryn Mawr. Einstein was horrified that such a luminary would receive so little recognition, and he responded by writing a glowing tribute which the Times promptly printed: http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Obits2/Noether_Emmy_Einstein.html http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Obits2/Noether_Emmy_...