Front side (obverse) of one of the Nobel Prize medals in Physiology or Medicine awarded in 1950 to researchers at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. (ERIK LINDBERG (DESIGNER); JONATHUNDER / WIKIMEDIA COMMONS (PHOTOGRAPHER))

These 5 Women Deserved, And Were Unjustly Denied, A Nobel Prize In Physics

Representation matters. Meet five stellar women in physics who were unjustly denied their place in history.

Ethan Siegel
9 min readOct 18, 2018

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Nobel season is now over, with another year in the books of celebrating the scientists who pioneered some of the greatest advances in physics, chemistry…

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