Why isn’t the Emmy Noether Google Doodle being shown worldwide? (+video)
Emmy Noether contributed to major advancements in both physics and mathematics, subjects that shunned women.
By Lisa Suhay, Correspondent MARCH 23, 2015
Monday’s Google Doodle honors German mathematician Emmy Noether, who overcame impediments barring women from academia and prejudice and exclusion at the hands of the Nazis, but was unable to have her Google Doodle universally shown on what would be her 133rd birthday.
Born on March 23, 1882 in the Bavarian town of Erlangen, Noether contributed to major advancements in both physics and mathematics, subjects that shunned women. She was also Jewish, a serious career liability in Germany at the time.
…“It’s very unfortunate that in this day and age there are those who do not automatically consider a universal theory in mathematics to be universally of interest,” says Chess Grandmaster Susan Polgar in an interview. “I don’t know who the Google editors are in those countries where they chose not to have Emmy Noether as the Doodle, but I am disappointed in their choice.”
Polgar, who is Jewish and was born in Hungary, one of the nations not choosing to share the Noether doodle was particularly disconcerted by the narrowing of this doodle’s audience.
“Emmy Noether overcame being Jewish in the time of Hitler and the Nazis, not to mention being a woman in the time when women were being horribly oppressed,” Ms. Polgar says. “Girls and women lack sufficient role models in the STEM fields, women like Emmy Noether. Which is why it’s so disappointing that she’s not being celebrated in all countries today.”
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