Intresting
To go back to early december. Anne L'Huillier who got the nobel prize in physics is called the second French woman to get the nobel prize in physics after Marie Skłodowska* Curie. The thing is that wikipedia calls her “French-Swedish physicist”, so Anne L'Huillier should also be the first Swedish woman who got the prize? Sure if you know your science history, you know that the Austrian Swedish physicist Lise Meitner should have shared the prize in 1944 because of her hypothesis about nuclear fission. But apparently back in the days you couldn’t be a woman and get a scientific nobel prize unless your last name was Curie, that’s another story. The third story might be that Lise Meitner ended up in Stockholm when it seems like all other Jewish scientists from Central Europe emigrated to the US (largest brain gain in history?).
* According to a Polish Swedish guy I knew, Marie Skłodowska Curie was very keen on keeping her Polish name.
