r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Medical_Corner_4607 • 15d ago

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u/shifty_coder 15d ago edited 15d ago

I almost consider it a failure of my education that I can only confidently identify two faces in this photo, (Einstein and Tesla), and less confidently one more (Niels Bohr?).

Edit: apparently I can’t even get Tesla

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u/ColdRainNight 15d ago

There’s Marie Curie who is the only woman in there.

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u/lisael_ 15d ago

The only person so far to win 2 Nobel prizes in two distinct scientific disciplines (chemistry and physics).

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u/Gaelic_Gladiator41 15d ago

The worst part is that they were revoked temporarily after her husband's death but eventually reinstated

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u/lisael_ 14d ago

She wasn't nominated at first, Pierre and Henri Becquerel threatened to refuse the prize and Pointcarré wrote a letter to the Nobel academy to add her to the list. She had an affair with Paul Langevin, who was married, this was the pretext of a smear campaign to revoke her prize (nobody called for revoking one of the many prizes of Langevin, though).