Good for her!
Donna Strickland won her Nobel prize in Physics before she got a wikipedia page
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Re: Donna Strickland won her Nobel prize in Physics before she got a wikipedia page
#22Did anyone else hear her interview on BBC radio? They ended by asking why she hadn't applied to be a full professor yet, and she clearly didn't want to talk about it. Wonder what's going on there. Edit: this episode https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w172w25chfb2c1f Interview starts at 12:55, awkward question at 16:45
I also noticed this -- clearly, not a lot of love in the dept for her. A bit awkward now, and I suspect soon, she will be a full prof, perhaps at a different university....
Re: Donna Strickland won her Nobel prize in Physics before she got a wikipedia page
#23Jacques Dubochet (2017, Chemistry) got his Wikipedia page on the day he won the Prize, too.
One of the men he shared the prize with, Joachim Frank also got his page in the year he got the prize, although his page came a few months before the prize.
One of the 2016 Chemistry winners, Ben Feringa, didn't get his page until the year before.
Maybe someone got confused at Wikipedia and thought Strickland won in Chemstry!
Re: Donna Strickland won her Nobel prize in Physics before she got a wikipedia page
#24That's awesome! Smart AND humble. Hats off to Ms. Strickland.
Edit: I assume a less humble person would have pushed to get their page long before getting a Nobel prize.
Re: Donna Strickland won her Nobel prize in Physics before she got a wikipedia page
#25https://www.theguardian.com/science/live/2018/oct/02/nobel-p... “Sumner says the fact that Strickland’s Wikipedia page has only appeared today is telling. “It took a Nobel prize for Donna Strickland to be noticed enough to have a (short) Wikipedia page written about her. Another example of how womens’ contributions to science go unnoticed and uncelebrated,” she says. “It takes the science equivalent of an Oscar for a…
Scientists don’t have TV shows, if they don’t win awards, how else am I supposed to hear about them?