Kenyan science teacher Peter Tabichi wins global prize
A science teacher from rural Kenya, who gives away most of his salary to support poorer pupils, has won a
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Fund to boost female and black physicist numbers
The scheme is funded by one of the world’s leading astronomers, Prof Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell. The discoverer of pulsars
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Why we’re creating Wikipedia profiles for BAME scientists
How an ‘editathon’ can help black, Asian and minority ethnic scientists — and science as a whole, explains Nicola O’Reilly.
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James Watson: Scientist loses titles after claims over race
Nobel Prize-winning American scientist James Watson has been stripped of his honorary titles after repeating comments about race and intelligence.
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No black scientist has ever won a Nobel Prize
Many in the scientific world are celebrating the fact that two women received this year’s Nobel prizes in physics and
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