Robert McNees on Nostr: Harlow Shapley, director of the Harvard Observatory, wrote back to inform ...
Harlow Shapley, director of the Harvard Observatory, wrote back to inform Mittag-Leffler that Henrietta had passed away.
But, he pointed out, didn’t HE really deserve the credit for interpreting her results? As far as I know, Mittag-Leffler ignored Shapely’s distasteful reply.
So no one received a Nobel for her revolutionary work. But it did factor into the Physics Prize in 2011, awarded to Perlmutter, Riess, and Schmidt for discovering the accelerating Hubble expansion of the Universe.
But, he pointed out, didn’t HE really deserve the credit for interpreting her results? As far as I know, Mittag-Leffler ignored Shapely’s distasteful reply.
So no one received a Nobel for her revolutionary work. But it did factor into the Physics Prize in 2011, awarded to Perlmutter, Riess, and Schmidt for discovering the accelerating Hubble expansion of the Universe.