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[–] [email protected] 114 points 4 days ago (1 children)

She's still alive, which means the Nobel Committee can and should fix this injustice. We just need to make them do it.

[–] [email protected] 87 points 4 days ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 41 points 4 days ago

I was about to state that this is the norm, not the exception. People in power being shitty, no matter how minimal their power is

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago

Truly classic. Classless little dick male advisor fuck face takes credit for lady’s (read in Bill Burr doing Archie Bunker’s voice).

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Didn't the same thing happen to the discovery of DNA?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago

Similar but not quite as bad, Watson and Crick who did the analysis that figured out the structure got the Nobel, but Rosalind Franklin who did the xray diffraction that got them the data that allowed them to figure out the double helix structure got left out.

Still pretty bad, but not as bad as giving the prize to someone who did no work for it and actively argued against Bell's conclusions.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago

Cold-blooded.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Fuck.
Before knowing about Jocelyn Bell Burnell (I wrote the full name to try to remember it better) I've read about basically the same thing in Rama (by Arthur C Clarke) & even tho that event is set in the future I immediately felt like it must have already happened irl hundreds of times.