Jones Beene wrote:
To add my piece of obligatory P.C. let me say that few male scientists have been both as brave and as brilliant as Madame Curie . . .
And not one was ever told by the Nobel committee: "Please don't come to pick up your Nobel prize. It would be unseemly after that affair you had lately." Curie was not fazed. She told them to mind their own business, and she showed up to collect the prize. At least, that's how I heard the story.
- Jed
