I wrote in response to the nincompoop:
>"John Knight" <johnknight at usa.com> wrote:
>>If you had paid attention to the url at [garbage URL deleted]
>>then you would already know that it was a Swedish woman, Gösta
>>Mittag-Leffler, a professor of mathematics at Stockholm University College,
>>who asked Pierre to consider asking the Nobel committee to award half of his
>>half to his wife, a lab assistant. Gösta didn't make this request out of
>>any serious concern for science, integrity, honor, but only because Marie
>>was his wife.
>>The Nobel foundation says that no one knows what Mittag-Leffler wrote to
> Pierre Curie. All we have is his answer. So your statements as to her
> motivation are pure speculation.
Having had it pointed out by others that Mittag-Leffler was NOT a woman, I am
reminded that I shouldn't take even incidental statements by the nincompoop
for granted. I therefore amend that last paragraph to read:
>>Meanwhile, I am happy that you have acknowledged that in the pre-affirmative
>> action era, there COULD BE a woman who was a professor of mathematics, and who
>> was influential enough that something she might say would be relevant to
>> both Pierre Curie and to the Nobel Committee.
lojbab
