Nuclear physics, particularly fission, may not have been discovered without Lise Meitner, but history seems to have forgotten about her. Of course, we all know the history of sexism in all fields but science has probably been one of the most affected by it. Most of the discoveries made by female scientists have been attributed to their male contemporaries despite the idea originating from the women. The same was true for Meitner.
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From my reading of the article, the biggest issue with her official recognition was that she was Jewish during Nazi rule.
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There was a lot of bad stuff going on in the past, not just sexism in science. We can't live in the past, and sometimes people die before we can get them to court. I just don't think its good for us to drone on about the sexism of the past around young girls coming up today. By filling their minds up with the past culture, the mind gets confused about whether things changed at all. Humans have always been on a wide spectrum of physical and mental abilities. We can't stamp out "sexism" by virtue signaling and carnival barking about it. It's in the DNA, same as tigers killing all the cute smaller animals that you make pets out of.
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