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"Really? Is that all? I thought there might have been more," Strickland responded, sounding surprised.

It has now been a while, that achievements are rarely done in trios, duos or in solitude. It is a farce to all other hard working scientists.

This recognition is for those, who successfully appropriate the spirit of a given time. Aside from the propaganda/marketing stunt.

[shrewduser]

Try as I might I can't make heads not tails of your comment.

[dpwm]

> It has now been a while, that achievements are rarely done in trios, duos or in solitude. It is a farce to all other hard working scientists.

Achievements in modern science are usually seen as incremental, done as part of a larger team and based on a substantial body of prior work. I think the author is trying to say that behind these successes, there are people who may have committed as much to the field but achieved no recognition. In my experience the larger teams / collaborations thing seems to be more of a Particle Physics thing.

> This recognition is for those, who successfully appropriate the spirit of a given time. Aside from the propaganda/marketing stunt.

The author, I believe, is saying that success is more to do with luck. I'm not sure I agree -- there tends to be a network effect with science that people who have proven themselves get offered better opportunities and so can in some cases have a cluster of successes, but I have heard similar sentiments and they're not so easily dismissed.

[dx87]

I think what they're saying is that current scientific achievements are usually the result of huge swaths of scientists from all manner of disciplines working together, and giving an award to a single researcher is usually just a popularity contest or publicity stunt that ignores the work of everyone else.

[alayne]

That comment was about the number of women who had won. Strickland is the third woman to win.

[philipwhiuk]

What's the relevance of the quote?

[semi-extrinsic]

From how I read it, it's her reaction when being told there have only been a few other women receiving the Physics Nobel.