gwern comments on Open Thread: October 2009 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 01 March 2010 01:54:07AM 0 points [-]

You missed Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, a quick Google tells me. And let's not forget those who weren't Nobelists. I don't think anyone here disputes that Turing deserved a Nobel or Fields medal, but it seems likely to me that he didn't get one because he was gay. It would be hard to correct for discrimination & prejudice like Turing suffered.