RLW wrote:
>> On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, John Knight wrote:
>> > Well, you got a zero for reading comprehension, ParseTree.
> >
> > If you had paid attention to the url at http://christianparty.net/curie.htm,> > 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.
>> Mittag-Leffler was a man, not a woman. Time and time again you get your
> facts messed up. I cannot take you seriously because of this.
BTW, he claimed that a negative number of people got a question on a
test right without guessing. A negative number! I kid you not.
J
>> Your case against Marie Curie rests on a single line of a single letter
> written by Piere Curie, which is ambiguous at best. Your dogmatism is
> making you look ridiculous, as it is obvious that Marie Curie deserved
> the TWO Nobel prizes she was awarded. Oh, I agree that she is given undue
> attention because of her sex, but that doesn't undermine the fact that
> she, together with her husband, performed groundbreaking research that was
> more than worthy of a Nobel prize.
>> Rowena.
