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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsShe never won a Nobel prize. But today this pioneering physicist is getting her face on a stamp
Wu got her Ph.D., became a professor and made landmark discoveries in physics at a time when relatively few women in the United States were even going to college.
The Chinese immigrant's work garnered her nicknames like "the queen of physics," and she won numerous accolades. But Wu never won a Nobel prize. And some speculate her gender may have been one reason she was passed over.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/11/us/chien-shiung-wu-stamp-scn/index.html
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She never won a Nobel prize. But today this pioneering physicist is getting her face on a stamp (Original Post)
Demovictory9
Feb 2021
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An interesting article. But in the "pioneering women in science" is Elizabeth Holmes!
muriel_volestrangler
Feb 2021
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muriel_volestrangler
(101,311 posts)1. An interesting article. But in the "pioneering women in science" is Elizabeth Holmes!
WTF, CNN???
Photo 19 of 19 (you can get straight there by clicking left from Chien-Shiung Wu):
American Elizabeth Holmes, 32, is the world's youngest self-made female billionaire. She founded revolutionary blood diagnostics company, Theranos, which uses a &prick of blood to get the same results as you would from an entire vial.
Reality, CNN:
Elizabeth Anne Holmes (born February 3, 1984)[1] is a former American businesswoman who founded and was the CEO of Theranos, a now-defunct health technology company. Theranos soared in valuation after the company claimed to have revolutionized blood testing by developing testing methods that could use surprisingly small volumes of blood, such as from a fingerprick.[2][3] By 2015, Forbes had named Holmes the youngest and wealthiest self-made female billionaire in America, on the basis of a $9-billion valuation of her company.[4] The next year, following revelations of potential fraud about Theranos' claims, Forbes had revised its published estimate of Holmes' net worth to zero,[5] and Fortune had named her one of the "World's Most Disappointing Leaders".[6]
The decline of Theranos began in 2015, when a series of journalism and regulatory investigations revealed doubts about the company's technology claims and whether Holmes had misled investors and the government. In 2018, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charged Theranos and Holmes with deceiving investors by "massive fraud" through false or exaggerated claims about the accuracy of the company's blood-testing technology; Holmes settled the charges by paying a $500,000 fine, returning 18.9 million shares to the company, relinquishing her voting control of Theranos, and being barred from serving as an officer or director of a public company for ten years.[7] In June 2018, a federal grand jury indicted Holmes and former Theranos chief operating officer Ramesh Balwani on nine counts of wire fraud and two counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud for distributing blood tests with falsified results to consumers.[8][9] A trial is set to begin on July 13, 2021, after being rescheduled several times due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[10] The credibility of Theranos was attributed in part to Holmes's personal connections and ability to recruit the support of influential people including Henry Kissinger, George Shultz, James Mattis, and Betsy DeVos. Holmes was in a clandestine romantic relationship with her chief operating officer, Ramesh Balwani.[11] After the demise of Theranos, she married hotel heir Billy Evans.
Holmes's career, the rise and dissolution of her company, and the subsequent fallout are the subject of a book, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup, by the Wall Street Journal reporter John Carreyrou, and an HBO documentary feature film, The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Holmes
The decline of Theranos began in 2015, when a series of journalism and regulatory investigations revealed doubts about the company's technology claims and whether Holmes had misled investors and the government. In 2018, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charged Theranos and Holmes with deceiving investors by "massive fraud" through false or exaggerated claims about the accuracy of the company's blood-testing technology; Holmes settled the charges by paying a $500,000 fine, returning 18.9 million shares to the company, relinquishing her voting control of Theranos, and being barred from serving as an officer or director of a public company for ten years.[7] In June 2018, a federal grand jury indicted Holmes and former Theranos chief operating officer Ramesh Balwani on nine counts of wire fraud and two counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud for distributing blood tests with falsified results to consumers.[8][9] A trial is set to begin on July 13, 2021, after being rescheduled several times due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[10] The credibility of Theranos was attributed in part to Holmes's personal connections and ability to recruit the support of influential people including Henry Kissinger, George Shultz, James Mattis, and Betsy DeVos. Holmes was in a clandestine romantic relationship with her chief operating officer, Ramesh Balwani.[11] After the demise of Theranos, she married hotel heir Billy Evans.
Holmes's career, the rise and dissolution of her company, and the subsequent fallout are the subject of a book, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup, by the Wall Street Journal reporter John Carreyrou, and an HBO documentary feature film, The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Holmes
Demovictory9
(32,454 posts)2. Omg 😳😳😳