[open-science] A Public List of Notable, Senior Open Scientists

Tue May 7 18:45:10 UTC 2013

On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Stacy Konkiel <stacy.konkiel at gmail.com>wrote:

> Ross, Tom, everyone:
>
> What a fantastic resource. Thanks for compiling this!
>

You're welcome, but Peter Suber deserves credit for compiling the original
list of letters.

> I do notice, however, that very few women have made their way onto the
> list. I would encourage folks to nominate senior female scientists, as well.
>

My spreadsheet is a simple compilation of the Nobel Laureates who signed
open letters to Congress in support of Open Access.  It doesn't have
anything to do with the Whitehouse nomination process and it is limited to
Nobel Laureates (and mostly U.S. nationals).

According to Freebase, of the 662 Nobel Laureates that it knows about, 635
are male and 27 are female (and that's across all categories, not just
science categories), so it's not surprising that the majority of the letter
signers were also male.

Tom
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