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The Consortium's collections provide many opportunities to learn more about the history of women in science, eugenics, and the Nobel Prizes. Here's what happened - Nature, November 10, 2021 Millikan and Five Other Eugenics Proponents from Buildings, Honors, and Assets - Caltech Weekly, January 15, 2021Ĭaltech confronted its racist past. Rosser Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.Ĭaltech to Remove the Names of Robert A. Rosser NYU Press, 2012.Īcademic Women in STEM Faculty: Views beyond a decade after POWRE, by Sue V. Freeman, 2001.īreaking into the Lab: Engineering Progress for Women in Science, by Sue V. The Politics of Excellence: Behind the Nobel Prize in Science, by Robert Marc Friedman W.H. Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics by Ruth Lewin Sime University of California Press, 1997. Rosser, Provost Emerita and Professor Emerita at San Francisco State University. Our moderator for this panel is Susan Lindee, Professor of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania, and our commentator is Sue V. They discuss activism in having Millikan's name taken off of buildings at Caltech, as well as current attempts to make Caltech more inclusive and diverse. Millikan, former faculty member at Caltech and winner of the 1923 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Michael Chwe and Peter Sachs Collopy discuss the recent reckoning with the racist and pro-eugenic beliefs of Robert A.

Ruth Lewin Sime and Robert Marc Friedman discuss the 'Meitner Scandal,' in which the world-renowned physicist Lise Meitner was denied a Nobel Prize for her work, despite being nominated over 50 times and having been considered by many-both in her time and now-as an exemplary candidate. What would it take to 'render justice' in science? In this roundtable discussion, our panelists discuss two episodes that demonstrate how scientific credit and recognition reflect the social and political order of the times. The link to the AAAS Program can be found here. Please watch a number of our panelists live on Sunday, Februat 12:00pm and on-demand as they discuss injustice in science at the 2022 AAAS Annual Meeting.

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