Talk:National Medal of Science

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[edit] Some thoughts on the page after expansion

I did a significant upgrade to this page and attempted to style it after National Medal of Technology (which was the article I just finished). I'm pretty happy with the way it is, but I still have three concerns:

1. I am awaiting confirmation that I have the awards process correct. I'm about 90% confident I figured it out based on the documents available at the NSF and such, but I also sent an e-mail out to get confirmation.
2. In the same e-mail I requested use of a nice graphic. We'll see how that turns out. Hopefully well.
3. Important: I am concerned about the lack of female representation in the list of notable people that have been named laureates. When chosing people I basically added people that I (and some other scientists I know) knew at least of vaguely or that I wikipedia'ed and their accomplishments were extremely good. I wonder if it reflects my bias in not knowing a ton of female scientists or whether it's just the fact that there aren't a ton of National Medals of Science given to females (thus making it less likely that one will be notable). I see three ways to fix this:
   1. Search and add some notable women that are discovered if they are discovered.
      • I regard this as the best option
   2. Search and discover that there actually are no notible women that have won this award.
      • Only to be used if the first one failed.
   3. Add a full listing of all 409 people who have won the award. This has been done!
      • Wikipedia isn't paper.
      • It would take a somewhat of a long time.
      • It could be done.
      • Would this improve the article as a whole?
      • Would a list of these people be better rather than containing them here?
        • I think creating a seperate list is a bad idea, but I thought I'd throw it out there.

So anyway, those are my thoughts on the current state of the article. Please feel free to just randomly edit the page (as expected of all articles on wikipedia) or contact me on my talk page for more random thoughts. Happy editing.

-SocratesJedi 08:23, 26 Dec 2004 (UTC) EDIT: -SocratesJedi | Talk 10:52, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)

• Nice work on this article, I'm going to put up a list of winners on a seperate page, it would make this page to long. I think that the table of notables on this page should include all the Medal winners that have gone on to win a Nobel prize, which is quite easy to find out via the NSF page, hopefully there are some women on there --nixie 21:33, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Female recipients that have won a Nobel Prize:

Gertrude B. Elion, Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine

Rita Levi-Montalcini, Noble Prize for Physiology or Medicine

Barbara McClintock, Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine

Rosalyn Yalow, Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine

--nixie 01:49, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)