I Changed Astronomy Forever. He Won the Nobel Prize for It

[amirm]

Seems far under represented since 51 or 52 percent of the population is female and 99.xx have ears

Having ears is necessary but not sufficient to be an audiophile. You also need to lust after gear which appeals more to males.

 

[beefkabob]

It's like cars. Women can appreciate cars, but males are more likely to obsess. Even women who lust for cars don't take it to male weirdness levels.

 

[Ra1zel]

Having ears is necessary but not sufficient to be an audiophile. You also need to lust after gear which appeals more to males.

It's like cars. Women can appreciate cars, but males are more likely to obsess. Even women who lust for cars don't take it to male weirdness levels.

What thousands of years of hunting-gathering does to a man

 

[tw 2022]

Having ears is necessary but not sufficient to be an audiophile. You also need to lust after gear which appeals more to males.

since more men than women are higher on the narcissistic scale this makes sense.. narcs are famously bad and impulsive with money...

 

[tw 2022]

What thousands of years of hunting-gathering does to a man

i would argue that it may be more about disorder rather than evolution,but i always allow for my own error...then again maybe this is evidence of de- evolution

 

[RayDunzl]

i would argue that it may be more about disorder rather than evolution,but i always allow for my own error...then again maybe this is evidence of de- evolution

Are we not men?

We are Devo!

 

[tw 2022]

Are we not men?

We are Devo!

Yeah, devo fans might just qualify..

 

[beefkabob]

When it comes to audio, Devo fans can't get no... satisFACtion.

 

[beefkabob]

What thousands of years of hunting-gathering does to a man

Nah, it's all about getting pussy. I'm crass, but I'm honest.

 

[Alice of Old Vincennes]

Female listeners also prefer 1dB less bass and 2dB less treble than male listeners, according to Harman research.

No kidding. At night, turn down.

 

[GaryH]

Beck to criminally under-celebrated female scientists/mathematicians, among her many highly important discoveries, the German Emmy Noether came up with what I consider to be one of the most profound, beautiful and all-encompassing theorems in the whole of physics: simply put that every (continuous) physical symmetry has a corresponding conservation law.

For example, the law of conservation of energy is a consequence of the fact that the way physical objects interact is 'symmetric under a time a translation' i.e. does not change from the past to the future. As another example, conservation of momentum comes from the fact that the way objects interact is the same no matter where you are in the universe - the laws of nature are symmetric under a spatial translation.

So Noether discovered that the conservation laws we observe in physics are fundamentally due to underlying symmetries of nature, an idea and the mathematical details of which have been invaluable in developing our most advanced physical theories such as the Standard Model of particle physics and quantum field theory. Yet she was never elected to the German academy of sciences nor even promoted to the position of full professor in her lifetime.

A touching obituary of her by a certain Albert Einstein perhaps says it best:

The efforts of most human-beings are consumed in the struggle for their daily bread, but most of those who are, either through fortune or some special gift, relieved of this struggle are largely absorbed in further improving their worldly lot. Beneath the effort directed toward the accumulation of worldly goods lies all too frequently the illusion that this is the most substantial and desirable end to be achieved; but there is, fortunately, a minority composed of those who recognize early in their lives that the most beautiful and satisfying experiences open to humankind are not derived from the outside, but are bound up with the development of the individual's own feeling, thinking and acting. The genuine artists, investigators and thinkers have always been persons of this kind. However inconspicuously the life of these individuals runs its course, none the less the fruits of their endeavors are the most valuable contributions which one generation can make to its successors.

Within the past few days a distinguished mathematician, Professor Emmy Noether, formerly connected with the University of Göttingen and for the past two years at Bryn Mawr College, died in her fifty-third year. In the judgment of the most competent living mathematicians, Fräulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began. In the realm of algebra, in which the most gifted mathematicians have been busy for centuries, she discovered methods which have proved of enormous importance in the development of the present-day younger generation of mathematicians. Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. One seeks the most general ideas of operation which will bring together in simple, logical and unified form the largest possible circle of formal relationships. In this effort toward logical beauty spiritual formulas are discovered necessary for the deeper penetration into the laws of nature.

Born in a Jewish family distinguished for the love of learning, Emmy Noether, who, in spite of the efforts of the great Göttingen mathematician, Hilbert, never reached the academic standing due her in her own country, none the less surrounded herself with a group of students and investigators at Göttingen, who have already become distinguished as teachers and investigators. Her unselfish, significant work over a period of many years was rewarded by the new rulers of Germany with a dismissal, which cost her the means of maintaining her simple life and the opportunity to carry on her mathematical studies. Farsighted friends of science in this country were fortunately able to make such arrangements at Bryn Mawr College and at Princeton that she found in America up to the day of her death not only colleagues who esteemed her friendship but grateful pupils whose enthusiasm made her last years the happiest and perhaps the most fruitful of her entire career.

 

[Moravid]

According to this chart...

If it is supposed to be used with the birth year - 1868 - the life expectancy was around 39 years.

In 1920, it had increased to 53 years, her age at death in 1921.

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Child mortality rates weighed down those results pretty sure. People didnt drop dead once they reached late 30s lol

 

[Hayabusa]

According to this chart...

If it is supposed to be used with the birth year - 1868 - the life expectancy was around 39 years.

In 1920, it had increased to 53 years, her age at death in 1921.

View attachment 245593

If we are nit picking live expectancy should have been 56 or so as the dip there was a bit artificial by the first worldwar

 

[oceansize]

Jessica Wade saw a problem and immediately created a solution.

It's impossible to ignore the disparities in science. White, upper-middle class men are more likely to work in the STEM fields than women, people of color, or those who grew up in lower-class families. And when women and people of color do become scientists, they're rarely credited for their contributions. So Wade, a 33-year-old London-based physicist, decided to change that. Starting in 2018, she began adding Wikipedia entries for unknown women scientists. She's since written thousands. (1,767 to be exact.)

continues at link (mashable)

 

[RayDunzl]

Child mortality rates weighed down those results pretty sure. People didnt drop dead once they reached late 30s lol

Good point:

"Excluding child mortality, the average life expectancy during the 12th–19th centuries was approximately 55 years. If a person survived childhood, they had about a 50% chance of living 50–55 years, instead of only 25–40 years."

That might still leave the lady above near the average.

 

[tw 2022]

Good point:

"Excluding child mortality, the average life expectancy during the 12th–19th centuries was approximately 55 years. If a person survived childhood, they had about a 50% chance of living 50–55 years, instead of only 25–40 years."

That might still leave the lady above near the average.

if you do the math child mortality probably claimed enough victims (due mostly to no disease vaccines available) to conclude that if you lived into adulthood in the 18/19/early 20th century you lived well past avg life expectancy.. look at all the famous American founders (jefferson, adams , washinton franklin ect ect) ,they mostly lived into their 70s and 80s...the advant of polio, chickenpox and other vaccines dramatically changed things in the early / mid 20th century...