Re:Who Did the Math for General Relativity First, Einstein o...
by gjm11 on Thursday August 08, 2019 @02:47PM
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Why should Payne have been a coauthor of Russell's paper?
It was (so far as I can tell) entirely independent work on the same question. She deserved a citation (which she got) and acknowledgement that she had got numbers very similar to his (which she got), but you don't make someone a coauthor just because you and they are working on the same problem.
It was (so far as I can tell) entirely independent work on the same question. She deserved a citation (which she got) and acknowledgement that she had got numbers very similar to his (which she got), but you don't make someone a coauthor just because you and they are working on the same problem.