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No black scientist has ever won a Nobel – that’s bad for science, and bad for society

Many in the scientific world are celebrating the fact that two women received this year’s Nobel prizes in physics and chemistry. Donna Strickland and Frances Arnold are only the 20th and 21st female scientists to be recognised by the Nobel Committee. Yet in over 100 years, we have never seen a black scientist become a Nobel laureate.
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The Immutable Impact of Black Scientists and Inventors

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February is a time when Americans reflect on the tremendous contributions of people of African descent. While names like Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rosa Parks are known, names of famous black scient
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Where are the black scientists, artists and thinkers in university syllabuses? | Higher Education Network | The Guardian

Where are the black scientists, artists and thinkers in university syllabuses? | Higher Education Network | The Guardian | Box of delight | Scoop.it
What do you think of when you hear the word “black”? Do you think of a colour? A race? A culture? A movement? There are many different ways of interpreting “blackness”, prompting the question: is it a concept worth studying?
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