Whoever thought that the words “do better” would become a tell for a proto-Stalinoid mindset?
Last month,
Nature’s photo editor discovered that there are few images available of the people involved, many of whom are Black.
Recently, we also needed an image of the physicist Elmer Imes, who, in 1918, became only the second African American to be awarded a PhD in physics in the United States. His doctoral work provided early evidence of the quantum behaviour of molecules. But university archives that
Nature contacted did not have a copy of his photograph. Commercial photography agencies also had nothing. Low-resolution, grainy images do exist, but, shockingly, even the US Library of Congress in Washington DC which holds images of many important scientists from the nation’s history does not have a photograph. However, such images are available for a number of notable white scientists from Imes’s time.
The Lack of People of Colour in Science Images Must Be Fixed
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Black scientist rethinks the dark in dark matter CNN 1 hr ago By Lisa Selin Davis, CNN © Shutterstock Theoretical physicist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, who explores the structural oppression of the scientific community as one of the themes in her new book, advocates for making the night sky accessible to all children. A starry night at Yellowstone National Park is shown here.
When many kids were running around playing tag or video games, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein was thinking about particle physics.
After her mother took her to see A Brief History of Time, Errol Morris 1991 documentary about theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, she fell in love with the discipline. She was just 10 years old.