“Science consists of continually making better and better what has been usable in the past.”
Pioneering astronomer Vera Rubin, who confirmed the existence of dark matter and paved the way for modern women in science, has died at the age of 88 – and died without the Nobel Prize she is undeniably owed, reminding us just how broken and biased our cultural machinery of honors is.
If there is any consolation to be found, it’s in the wise words of astrophysicist Janna Levin, whose own career was built on the path Rubin paved:
“Scientists do not devote their lives to the sometimes lonely, agonizing, toilsome investigation of an austere universe because they want a prize.”
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