It’s been 53 years since a woman won the Nobel Prize in physics. What’s the holdup?
This is your annual reminder that it's been an embarrassingly long time since the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to a woman. Only two women have ever won the prize: Marie Curie in 1903 and Maria Goeppert-Mayer in 1963. One of the most puzzling snubs is Vera Rubin, whose work measuring galactic rotation speeds convinced scientists that most of the matter in the universe comes in the form of dark matter.
Rubin and her colleague Kent Ford did their research in the 1960s and 1970s. For comparison, the three scientists who discovered dark energy, another major component of the universe, snagged a Nobel 13 years after their pivotal work. There are plenty of other accomplished women physicists who so far have been passed over for the prize, including Lene Hau, Helen Quinn, and Mildred Dresselhaus.
Interesting reading via The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/10/04/its-been-53-years-since-a-woman-won-the-nobel-prize-in-physics-whats-the-hold-up/
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I know this lab. I did work just few meters from there. The chair of Marie is still there.
ReplyDeleteFar too long a wait. Hopefully the next one won't be
ReplyDeleteNot a justification, but physics somehow aims for a complete picture of (the gears of) nature as lifeless, a kind of anti-animism, so physics results are a bit like dead game that the ancestral hunter, typically male, brought home.
ReplyDeleteSo ,Mame Corina , yes, what is your holdup to focusing and discovering a new unknown active possible reaction producing something ? Get going , 53 years , you can solve this with disciplined focus, for a time span....and !
ReplyDelete" Voila la creation !
Jay Gerlach Stretching is good for imagination, in any case, and on that particular axis it is consistent with an hygienic approach to the hypothesis of dark matter assumptions.,
ReplyDeleteDark matter assumptions: assumptions that never come into the spotlight even though they are massively present and conveyed indirectly by culture, language and morals.
until something stops them, which can take forever.