originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand the world. Marie Curie almost didn’t get her first or second Nobel prize. When the Nobel committee wrote to her husband to tell him that he won the Nobel prize for radium he wrote back and said that they had to include Marie. People wonder why women scientists often work with their spouses but who else has worried about getting credit right and turned down a Nobel prize because of it? the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand the world.

Source: Forbes March 07, 2017 17:27 UTC