It's 1967 & she's 24 years old.
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It's 1967 & she's 24 years old. It had taken her 3 months to go through the chart-recorder paper manually. She had helped build the radio #telescope that picked up the waves. There was a pulsating signal, regular; it turned out to be a #pulsar.
Her supervisor didn't believe her. She insisted it's real.It was. But the press would ask her about boyfriends. Her male colleagues were asked about science.
7 years later, Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell
would be excluded from the #Nobel Prize of #Physics. -
It's 1967 & she's 24 years old. It had taken her 3 months to go through the chart-recorder paper manually. She had helped build the radio #telescope that picked up the waves. There was a pulsating signal, regular; it turned out to be a #pulsar.
Her supervisor didn't believe her. She insisted it's real.It was. But the press would ask her about boyfriends. Her male colleagues were asked about science.
7 years later, Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell
would be excluded from the #Nobel Prize of #Physics.@mythologyandhistory I wrote about women and their crucial role in various technological advancements, and how it was usually met with oppression throughout history: https://www.klika.us/women-and-technology-history-of-oppressed-ingenuity/
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It's 1967 & she's 24 years old. It had taken her 3 months to go through the chart-recorder paper manually. She had helped build the radio #telescope that picked up the waves. There was a pulsating signal, regular; it turned out to be a #pulsar.
Her supervisor didn't believe her. She insisted it's real.It was. But the press would ask her about boyfriends. Her male colleagues were asked about science.
7 years later, Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell
would be excluded from the #Nobel Prize of #Physics.@mythologyandhistory I highly recommend the Lost Women of Science podcast. https://www.lostwomenofscience.org/
Lise Meitner was the key figure in the discovery of nuclear fission, but her colleague, Otto Hahn, received the 1945 Nobel Prize in Chemistry alone, without even an acknowledgement of Meitner by the Nobel committee nor from Hahn publicly or privately. It is a tragic story.
https://www.lostwomenofscience.org/podcast-episodes/why-did-lise-meitner-never-receive-the-nobel-prize-for-splitting-the-atom -
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