On Nobel Prizes, and why Girls Should eat Cake in History Lessons
Hannah Wallis
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Posted 03.01.2012
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UK Universities & Education
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It was with fascination that I listened to Radio 4's profile last week of Jocelyn Bell Burnell - the scientist whose claim to fame is being passed over for the Nobel Prize for physics, despite being the person who discovered pulsars. Rather, it was awarded to her male colleague instead.
