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Nobelpristagaren som hjälper vetenskapskvinnor.

Skrivet av Lennart on September 27, 2006
Posted Under: Vetenskap

Av 184 nobelpristagare inom medicin och fysiologi har endast sju varit kvinnor. Så när Paul Greengard vann ett av de tre nobelprisen i just medicin och fysiologi år 2000 så beslöt han sig för att göra någonting åt det.

CLAUDIA DREIFUS skriver i New York Times om hur Paul Greengard har instiftat ett stipendium för framstående kvinnliga forskare inom biomedicinen: He Turned His Nobel Into a Prize for Women:

Q. Why create the Pearl Meister Greengard Prize?

A. There were two factors. One was the observation that there was still discrimination against women in science, even at the highest levels. On a personal level, I wanted to create something in honor of my mother, Pearl Meister, who died giving birth to me.

Q. Had your mother been a scientist?

I don’t have a single photograph of my mother. When I married, my wife, Ursula, put a picture of a woman we thought was Pearl Meister above our mantelpiece. Ten years later, we discovered this was someone else’s mother. Since there’s not a shred of physical evidence that my mother ever existed, I wanted to do something to make her less abstract.

Rockefeller University will be awarding the third annual Pearl Meister Greengard Prize in November. It will go, this year, to a British biologist, Mary Lyon.

 

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