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Re:The Origin Story Behind the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics by Waterluvian on Sunday March 19, 2023 @06:31PM (#35224389)
Ask them to name 5 of any gender and the youngest is probably Einstein or Hawking.

There is definitely a gender bias. But there’s also a “people on the street don’t care as much as physicists think they ought to” bias.

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Re:The Origin Story Behind the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics by hackernewds on Sunday March 19, 2023 @07:58PM (#35225200)
You could argue there were (and are) disproportionately more men in science (for various reasons) and most important contributions have been through them (related to previous and other various reasons), without making the gender argument.
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