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[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 27 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (2 children)

Without independent wealth and deep personal connections it’s incredibly difficult to succeed in academia, regardless of the quality of your research.

Always has been, ~~why do you think he's called SIR Isaac Newton?~~

EDIT : Turns out his knighthood was afterwards, but he did have connections. There are several examples of science being the domain of already rich people.

[–] baltakatei@sopuli.xyz 10 points 21 hours ago (1 children)
  • Neils Bohr, from a Jewish/Danish banking family.
  • James Clark Maxwell inherited land and wealth in Scotland.
  • Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz… look at the size of the wig on the man!
[–] yeather@lemmy.ca 8 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Also, Newton was not born with the connection, he made them in Grantham. He had a very strained relationship with his mother and step father and was raised by his grandmother.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 5 points 20 hours ago

I was talking about his uncle that gave him an in for University

His uncle the Reverend William Ayscough, who had studied at Cambridge, recommended him to the university.

But I just read that shit off wikipedia so, I'm no scholar. 🤷