TL;DR: Journalist decides to actually write about the professional life of the scientist rather than their private life and private properties when asked to wri

TL;DR: Journalist decides to actually write about the professional life of the scientist rather than their private life and private properties when asked to write a professionally-focused profile. Question: Why the hell did this take so long? Nobody writes ‘X is a great role model for people with Y hair’, even though there might be few people with Y hair in a given field, nor does anybody think it appropriate to write ‘Even though X is shorter than average, X still achieved enough to serve as a role-model for other short people’.