4mo ago

TIL that the discoverer of radio pulsars - Jocelyn Bell Burnell - lost out on her Nobel Prize because her thesis supervisor took the credit

Jocelyn Bell Burnell - Wikipedia

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She's still alive, which means the Nobel Committee can and should fix this injustice. We just need to make them do it.
- https://www.nobelprize.org/contact
Tale as old as time
- 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
- Truly classic. Classless little dick male advisor fuck face takes credit for lady’s (read in Bill Burr doing Archie Bunker’s voice).
- Didn't the same thing happen to the discovery of DNA?
  
  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.
Cold-blooded.
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.

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