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Journal Article
The Women Who Discovered RNA Splicing
2020
Overview
In 1997, the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) celebrated the 20th anniversary of the discovery of RNA splicing. The coauthor of the CSHL paper announcing the discovery, Louise Chow, was not invited, even though first authorship usually implies a central role in the work. Richard J. Roberts, who was one of Chow's coauthors, and Philip A. Sharp from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) team that had published a parallel paper, were the centers of attention, as if they alone had made the discovery. Apparently, as the sole winners of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine awarded for the research, Roberts and Sharp made more desirable guests than those who had been excluded from this most coveted scientific award. A similar affront occurred in 2017 when CSHL celebrated the 40th anniversary of the discovery. The events made it clear that leading scientists remained interested in maintaining the status quo, rather than seizing the opportunity to reassess the relationship between the present and the past. The lack of recognition for women who played a key role in high-profile discoveries is evident in the paucity of women among Nobel Laureates or recipients of other prestigious prizes in science.
