The Massry Prize is a #YAMMA (yet another mostly male award) #MatildaEffect #Massry #GenderBias

I was really pleased to see the announcement that the 2017 Massry Prize was awarded to Norm Pace, Jeffrey Gordon and Rob Knight. Alas, then someone pointed me to the web site listing past winners of the prize. Massry Prize.  And I compiled the list (with some help from Wikipedia)Massry PrizeYet Another Mostly Male AwardYAMMA1996Michael Berridge 1997 Judah Folkman 1998Mark Ptashne 1999Gunter Blobel 2000Leland H. Hartwell 2001Avram Hershko2001 Alexander Varshavsky 2002Mario Capecchi2002 Oliver Smithies 2003Roger Kornberg2003 David Allis 2003 Michael Grunstein 2004Ada Yonath 2004Harry Noller 2005Andrew Fire2004 Craig Mello 2004 David Baulcombe 2006Akira Endo2007Michael Phelps 2008 Shinya Yamanaka2008 James A. Thomson2008 Rudolf Jaenisch 2009Gary Ruvkun2009 Victor Ambros 2010Randy Schekman 2011F. Ulrich Hartl 2011 Arthur Horwich2012Michael Rosbash2012 Jeffrey C. Hall2012 Michael W. Young 2013Michael Sheetz2013 James A. Spudich 2013 Ronald D. Vale 2014Steven Rosenberg2014 Zelig Eshhar 2014 James P. Allison2015Philippe Horvath2015 Jennifer Doudna 2015 Emmanuelle Charpentier2016Gero Miesenb öck2016 Peter Hegemann2016 Karl Deisseroth2017Rob Knight2017 Jeff Gordon2017 Norm Pace42 male3 femaleI colored them based on my inference of gender. I realize that I may have some of this wrong and that using a binary system is not right in many cases but I think...
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