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A Battle Over Who Discovered the First Earth-Like Planet
- lutorm 12y agoI can't help thinking that this is a pointless, egocentric, argument. What does "discover" mean when your work is built on the works of others? Without the people building the instruments and the telescopes, without the people first finding all the not-quite-Earth like planets, none of this would happen. The two discoveries are clearly within the error bar of simultaneity, the way things happen in science.
- IndianAstronaut 12y agoIt may seem pointless, but when handing out Nobel prizes they don't go to the people that made the reagents or centrifuges. It also doesn't go to every author cited in the prize winning paper.