The Nobels Overwhelmingly Go to Men — This Year's Prize For Medicine Was No Exception
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🗓️ 5 October 2020
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Shortwave from NPR. |
| 0:04.3 | Hey, everybody. |
| 0:05.9 | Maddie, Sophia here with NPR Science Correspondent Nelgrin, Foboys. |
| 0:09.6 | Hi, Annelle. |
| 0:10.6 | Hey, Maddie. |
| 0:11.6 | So, Nell, the Nobel Prizes for Science are being awarded this week. |
| 0:15.4 | We've got physiology or medicine today, physics on Tuesday, and chemistry on Wednesday. |
| 0:22.0 | Right. |
| 0:23.0 | And even though we're taping this before the first prize is announced, we already have |
| 0:26.1 | a lot to talk about. |
| 0:27.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:28.4 | And the awards are a rare example of lots of people, non-economics, the media, really |
| 0:34.6 | celebrating scientists. |
| 0:36.0 | I mean, Nell, you've covered them for years, right? |
| 0:38.6 | It's kind of a big deal. |
| 0:40.2 | Years. |
| 0:41.2 | Years. |
| 0:42.2 | And every year, science reporters around the world get up at this ungodly hour to find out |
| 0:46.0 | who won and then explain it. |
| 0:48.4 | Right. |
| 0:49.4 | So, one year, I had like 15 minutes to figure out how to explain the, quote, mechanism |
| 0:53.8 | of spontaneous broken symmetry in sub-atomic physics. |
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