Category: Vox

• Can the Nobel Prize be fixed?

  Yesterday, the 2019 Nobel Prizes were awarded, but the lack of women science laureates was both predictable and conspicuous. As I point out in my new comic with Maki Naro for Vox, only 19 women have won Nobels in chemistry, medicine/physiology, and physics out of 607 total awardees — a far lower rate than the…

  Matthew R. Francis

  December 11, 2019

  Vox

  Nobel Prize, scientists behaving badly, sexism, social justice