Jürgen PlengeDec 8
Chuck Darwin

The two relics of exploding stars are black holes and neutron stars.
Both were discovered by women.
Jocelyn Bell discovered neutron stars, in the guise of “pulsars”, in 1967.
Since then, three Nobel prizes have gone to male scientists for their work on pulsars, but none to Bell.
Louise Webster, the co-discoverer of black holes, has been largely forgotten.
Unless, of course, you remember her name.

https://newhumanist.org.uk/articles/6296

The woman who discovered black holes

Louise Webster has been largely forgotten – it's time to remember her

Dec 8 at 5:35amWeb
Show threadprof_TDec 8
@cdarwin all one needs to know is that out of 229 winners in physics there are 5 (five) women. Three since 2018.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Physics
List of Nobel laureates in Physics - Wikipedia

Show threadMelloDec 8
@cdarwin This is so sad.
Show threadLiveAndrewDec 8
@cdarwin neutron stars were my first special interest. I was born in the year they were discovered.
Show threadPoligofsky 🇨🇦 .. 🚫🤖Dec 8

@cdarwin

Prejudice in science is deeply ironic. The core philosophy is to remove subjective bias. Seems that the self-serving aspects of human nature can route around almost any obstacle.