TIL that the discoverer of radio pulsars - Jocelyn Bell Burnell - lost out on her Nobel Prize because her thesis supervisor took the credit
Jocelyn Bell Burnell - Wikipedia
Her thesis supervisor had argued against her findings at first, she built the detector and found the signal, and she was disbelieved. She had to fight to get her supervisor to even acknowledge that she had found something worth looking at. And the shameless fucking cunt went ahead and accepted the Nobel Prize for it.
As she wrote later:
it would demean Nobel Prizes if they were awarded to research students, except in very exceptional cases, and I do not believe this is one of them.
I disagree with her on that. It demeans prizes to give someone else credit they didn't earn. His prize would have been being recognized as the person who pushed her development.
She has always been a very gracious person, putting up with her school "allowing" a girl in the science program, even though they weren't, and putting up with cat calls daily when she entered the lecture hall. When she was interviewed for her discovery, they'd ask him the technical questions and ask her to unbutton her shirt a little lower for pictures.
And she, still very graciously, has not stuck to that original 70s quote of peace she gave. Examples since then:
“The picture people had at the time of the way that science was done was that there was a senior man—and it was always a man—who had under him a whole load of minions, junior staff, who weren't expected to think, who were only expected to do as he said.”
and
"In those days students weren't recognized by the committee"
