> “I haven’t done anything since to deserve special respect.”
She's right.
She left an exploitative disgraceful system who only now grasps for relevancy and respect by seeking to associate itself with those who did the work.
Physicist, 98, honoured with doctorate 75 years after groundbreaking discovery
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Re: Physicist, 98, honoured with doctorate 75 years after groundbreaking discovery
#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
If everyone had a requirement for marriage that you marry someone as smart as you, exactly no one would be married.
I left it ambiguous on purpose, as equivalent could mean many things, someone at least as accomplished, at least as wealthy, or at least as considerate... the list it goes on. It all depends on what that person is looking for. Seems silly to judge which attributes are important for what is a deeply personal choice with serious life implications.
that makes sense but it still seems like there is an imbalance on expectations.
It reads as they're great and there's not a lot of people as great as they are when in reality it's probably more like the overlap between the set of people they desire and the set of people that desires them is impossibly narrow. This sounds like a tough personal problem that they can 100% work through by looking in the mirror and working on themselves.
I'm too great to ever find someone as great as me is frankly a piss poor attitude and outlook on life and I feel really bad for them to be stuck like that.
Re: Physicist, 98, honoured with doctorate 75 years after groundbreaking discovery
#73Every person I know with a PhD now in their 40s and 50s (7 people) doesn’t have a family and wished they did and didn’t have a PhD. I’d love to see a study on that. I’m never bothered because it looked like too much effort for little money.
I'm friends with a bunch (15+) of people with PhDs. Many of them have partners and children.
That said, several of them joke with me that the fact that they have a PhD and I have a Masters is an indication I am smarter than they are.
Re: Physicist, 98, honoured with doctorate 75 years after groundbreaking discovery
#74Interesting that The Guardian is leading the way in finally having non-gendered headlines, i.e. not saying "Female physicist recognized 75 years after discovery" or "Rosemary Fowler, 98-year old physicist, recognized 75 years after discovery". This will hopefully pave the way for truer equality in that the most common reaction reading this headline would probably be "oh no, why has this physicist not gotten the recog…
They didn’t have to “gender” it, it’s the Guardian. They don’t write uplifting feel good stories about straight white men.
Re: Physicist, 98, honoured with doctorate 75 years after groundbreaking discovery
#75It helps to round up the yearly number of doctorates at the end of the Academy calendar.
Maybe the thesis production was getting a little slow for them this year.
Re: Physicist, 98, honoured with doctorate 75 years after groundbreaking discovery
#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
Most of the people with the PhD I know that have a family either abandoned the "line of work" (e.g, mathematics PhD but did computer programming) or was a teacher/professor.
I know a PhD specialising in applying ml algorithms to different markets, mostly energy-related. Married, 3 kids, good position In a fund, same focus as his phd. He was very, very lucky, without even realising it to this day. His wife took most of the hit, with him permanently working, or teaching, or something, and her taking care of thr rest of their life, kids included. On the specialisation side. He never went th…
The number of these you'll find, especially in teaching, is amazingly high.
The "absent-minded professor backed by his down-to-earth wife" is a trope but a common one (and, to be fair, it's not always a man who's absent minded!).
Re: Physicist, 98, honoured with doctorate 75 years after groundbreaking discovery
#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
My wife got a PhD by age 28 with over 20 science publications, didn’t stress at all during the time really. She traveled the world during that time and we live a pretty chill life. Met lots of friends during that time too. Don’t purely listen to anecdotes.
From the number of published articles, it seems your wife was in STEM? Engineering Ph.D.s publish a lot of papers but they contribute little to each, because there are often tens of co-authors. Not to downplay your wife's achievement, but pointing out #papers is not that informative.
First author publications. She’s an Ivy grad. Obviously I am biased, but she isn’t really slacking mate.
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#78Every person I know with a PhD now in their 40s and 50s (7 people) doesn’t have a family and wished they did and didn’t have a PhD. I’d love to see a study on that. I’m never bothered because it looked like too much effort for little money.
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Re: Physicist, 98, honoured with doctorate 75 years after groundbreaking discovery
#79Interesting that The Guardian is leading the way in finally having non-gendered headlines, i.e. not saying "Female physicist recognized 75 years after discovery" or "Rosemary Fowler, 98-year old physicist, recognized 75 years after discovery". This will hopefully pave the way for truer equality in that the most common reaction reading this headline would probably be "oh no, why has this physicist not gotten the recog…
I'm sorry you told me, I'd have never known. I didn't click on the story because I didn't want to read about a 98 yo who calls themselves a physicist and doesn't have a PhD. Yes, I'm sure there have been some, but I would have already heard of them if it was a good story.
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#80I'm trying to picture her as a young inquisitive woman, rising to a research challenge and working day/night on the discovery.
But when you see them so old and decrepit, it really hits home just how terrible ageing truly is. It robbed this woman of her vigour. I can't actually imagine the inquisitive expression she must have had on her face during her peak.