Nobel Prize

You can count the female Nobel Prize winners in physics on one hand: recent winners have wisdom for young women in the field

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Of the 225 people who have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, only five are women. This is a very small number, and certainly less than 50% – the percentage of women in the human population. Despite several studies exposing the barriers for women in science and many efforts to increase their representation, physics … Read more

Lise Meitner helped discover nuclear fission, but despite 49 nominations, never won a Nobel Prize for her genius

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Otto Hahn (left) won a Nobel Prize for the discovery of nuclear fission and would later downplay his colleague Lise Meitner (right) for her crucial role in the discovery.ullstein bild Dtl./Getty Images Lise Meitner identified the fission process when her male colleagues could not figure it out. Her close colleague, Otto Hahn, downplayed the important … Read more