Dr. Medusa

Recently we were looking through the awards that are given out each year at the major annual scientific conference in our field. Almost none of them were given to women in the past few years - except for the special prize that must be given to a woman. It made us wonder how widespread this [...]

This year’s Nobel prize announcements just happened. And, as usual, no women received any of the science prizes. We became curious about the history of Nobel prize awards to women. We looked at the awards for the Physics, Chemistry, and Physiology/Medicine. As you might expect, physics is the worst. Only 2 women have been awarded the [...]