Parse Tree <parsetree at hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>> "Bob LeChevalier" <lojbab at lojban.org> wrote in message
> news:6qu4ju4i27ra7ti5gts1ndhivj7onim5mj at 4ax.com...> > "John Knight" <johnknight at usa.com> wrote:
> > >The simple fact that they have to go back a century and dredge up a
woman
> > >who got a Nobel Prize BECAUSE her husband requested she be added to the
> list
> > >is proof enough of the lack of women Nobel Prize winners, eh?
> >
> > http://www.almaz.com/nobel/women.html> >
> > lists 30 women who won Nobel prizes, many of them in the sciences,
despite
> > the fact that because of sexism, women have had few opportunities to
work
> in
> > the sciences.
> >
> > The reason for going back to Marie Curie is that she was especially
> > noteworthy among scientists in general, made one of the most significant
> > discoveries of her time, did so under conditions even more adverse than
> women
> > face today, and was recognized within the first couple of years after
the
> > Nobel prizes were established. (She also raised a daughter to the level
> that
> > 30 years later she also won a Nobel prize in the sciences.)
> >
> > That her husband requested her recognition is because he admitted that
she
> > was at least as instrumental in the discovery as he was. In other
words,
> he
> > was honest, unlike yourself.
>> If Grace Murray Hopper really did invent the compiler, then her impact has
> been far beyond that of Marie Curie, and most Nobel Laureates in general.
>http://www.sdsc.edu/ScienceWomen/hopper.html>
She did. She also was the first to "debug" a computer:).
T9W
