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editorial: S. Jocelyn Bell Burnell So Few Pulsars, So Few Females Science 2004; 304: 489 [Summary] [PDF]

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Quality versus Quantity

David Wade, Ph.D.   (18 May 2004)

Quality versus Quantity 18 May 2004
David Wade, Ph.D., Biochemist Wade Research Foundation Respond to this E-Letter: Re: Quality versus Quantity	I enjoyed Jocelyn Bell Burnell's Editorial "So Few Pulsars, So Few Females" in the April 23 issue (304, 489, 2004), her descriptions of the excitement of pulsar discoveries, and laboratory hierarchies in the early 1970s. It is discouraging that 30 years later, in the 21st century, the scientific aristocracy is still denying the value of women scientists and their discoveries (1), as evidenced by the fact that there are only three living female Nobel Laureates in the science categories, all of whom are in the Physiology or Medicine category. Amazingly, there are no female laureates in the Chemistry or Physics categories. Certainly this must merit inclusion of the Nobel Committees in the "Most Stubborn" category of the Guinness Book of Records. David Wade, PhD, Wade Research Foundation 70 Rodney Avenue Somerset, New Jersey 08873 1. Wade, D. Nobel Women. Science (2002) 295: 439.