Uncredited Women Scientists

Yeah, seems a bit ridiculous that he made the discovery and didn't get first authorship.

Crazy learning about the woman. Read about this parity discovery not even once i hear about the lady contribution. Another dna X-ray or Einstein underlying maths … should have a correction prize say 20 years later even if you have passed away kind.

Makes me remember Donna Strickland, a Nobel prize winning physicist, whose Wikipedia article was rejected multiple times, saying she was not notable enough to have one.

A lot of breakthroughs in science have a similar fate. One example was finding that DNA was a double helix with Watson, Crick, and Rosalind Franklin. Watson and Crick got all the credit but Franklin definitely played a major role in that discovery and was mostly written out.

The first part of the scenario, where one scientist is held up as responsible for a large team's discovery, has played out in every Nobel Prize for experimental work in the past fifty years. That's how science works and everyone who does science professionally knows this. The second part of the scenario, where the internet goes wild and declares this a horrendous miscarriage of credit, happens only when the leader of the team is female. It is not a miscarriage of credit. It is how scie

If a man received personal acclaim for a discovery, and someone looked at the repo and found that someone other than the man wrote most of the crunchier code, then yes I'd evaluate the acclaim for the man the same way.Note most of the acclaim aimed at the scientist, rather than the team, was from the media. Whom as usual, likes to omit their own role.

The study doesn't cover one of the possible reasons for this.For example, take George Zweig who discovered quarks before Murray Gell-Mann did, however Gell-Mann got the credit because Zweig was an undergraduate and Gell-Mann was a well known name in the physics community.Gell-Mann ended up getting the Nobel in 1969, and Zweig ended up leaving physics and going over to the neurobiology camp and made significant contributions to wavelets.

Anyways, I wonder if there is any explanation of this phenomena.It's the basic principle in real-world science that for stuff, people get credited who didn't invent/discover it. That's the reason why your submission wasn't noticed; you simply would have had to wait for the Nth time around.

I think this might be one of those cases where we just have to agree to disagree, but I, well, disagree with the premise that the reaction to men is any different on this point.There are regularly posts here linking to articles about misattribution of credit in science and technology, the problem with the "great man theory," laments about the role of social media in creating hype, and there are plenty of male figures discussed here who engender bitter discussions about how credit sh

Either the article chose some bad examples from this list or the list is underwhelming. After browsing a few comments explaining a bit of context for some of these entries, I read the article (comments first, always...) only to find that there wasn't much more to it.> The Timeline series profiles a few of the women whom it describes as prime examples of the Matilda effect, including Dr. Lise Meitner...Explanation in another comment is, long story short, she was Jewish amd the work