
38 - The Nobel Prize's Greatest Misses
Why This Universe?
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Why the Nobel Committee Screwed Up So Bad
Josh Lynn Bell discovered Paul Sars in 1967. She was a grad student at the time, and there are lots of instances where students are overlooked by the Nobel committee. Women were not taken seriously as scientists back in the 60s and 70s; it would just be overt. The next group of people I want to mention as potential winners that were overlooked are just kind of the mid-century population of cosmologists.
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