Lise Meitner
Vera Rubin
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Chien-Shiung Wu
Cecilia Payne
Rosalind Franklin
The list goes on. And the Nobel Prize committee still won't admit sexism is why there have been 3 women to win in physics, and 5 in chemistry, EVER. Great start to 2020 with this one.
Vera Rubin
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Chien-Shiung Wu
Cecilia Payne
Rosalind Franklin
The list goes on. And the Nobel Prize committee still won't admit sexism is why there have been 3 women to win in physics, and 5 in chemistry, EVER. Great start to 2020 with this one.
Of 212 Nobel Laureates in Physics (one man was awarded *twice*, btw), 3 have been women = 1.4% Nobel Laureates in Physics are women.
Of 184 Nobel Laureates in Chemistry, 5 went to women = 2.7% Nobel Laureates in Chemistry are women.
The numbers speak for themselves, friends.
Of 184 Nobel Laureates in Chemistry, 5 went to women = 2.7% Nobel Laureates in Chemistry are women.
The numbers speak for themselves, friends.
And don't get me started with Vera Rubin. She literally ushered in a new era of dark matter physics. Her work was published 1976, and she lived till December 2016. That's 40 YEARS the Nobel Prize committee had to award her, and snubbed her *every single time*.
And the Nobel Prize committee has the audacity to post a graphic showing Lise Meitner in thre background, as if she didn't do the work, and simply state that she didn't win despite being nominated time and time again? Please, Nobel committee, tell us WHY. We're already know.
Another woman snubbed:
And another woman snubbed:
The list has no end. Want some more? Here, more women who deserved the Nobel Prize and didn't get it: cen.acs.org/articles/95/i3…
And another
And yet another
And how could I forget. This one hurts.
More women
Check out this link and thread on scientists who were women who deserved the Nobel:
VERY important one
And another woman who was also snubbed by the committee *and* her husband
Also keep in mind: when Marie Curie won the Nobel Prize in Physics, her husband *insisted* she be included because her work was substantial. Had her husband not cared and did what most husbands have done (see thread), she'd not have won the prize (in physics).
So men who accepted prizes due to work done by women *could have* insisted that the women were included. But they didn't. It by no means takes responsibility off the shoulders of the committee, but it shows how willing men were to take credit for work that wasn't entirely theirs.
You know what's so beautiful yet devastating about this thread? I get learn of women who've made contributions whom I've not heard of, but devastating because they did work with a man, where (you guessed it) he got the Nobel and she did not. Here's another
And yet two more women
