Talk:Beatrice Tinsley

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Thanks you to all the contributors to this article, as it has now been translated into FR:. Hop Kikuyu3 (talk) 20:45, 17 September 2011 (UTC)

The article should mention Tinsley was overlooked for the Nobel Prize in Physics
In 1975, Gunn and Beatrice Tinsley published in Nature a paper titled "An accelerating universe" which concluded that not only is the universe expanding, it is expanding at an accelerating rate. This was shocking news but many in the scientific world did not immediately embrace the conclusion. In 1998, Saul Perlmutter, Brian Schmidt, Adam Riess made observations of distant supernovaes which confirmed Gunn and Tinsley's earlier discovery that the universe expansion was accelerating. The scientific community immediately embraced this conclusion, possibly because of the earlier work by Gunn and Tinsley. The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Saul Perlmutter, Brian P. Schmidt and Adam G. Riess. It seems a shame that Sandage, Gunn and Tinsley were overlooked since they reached the same conclusions 24 years earlier. RonCram (talk) 14:37, 14 July 2012 (UTC)
 * If I recall correctly, Nobels are never awarded posthumously, and Tinsley was long dead by 2011. I don't know about the others.109.150.76.103 (talk) 22:01, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

I knew Bea Tinsley in our youth and I feel that the article should acknowledge another aspect of her life - a gifted poet. Just prior to her death she wrote:-

Let me be like Bach creating fugues, Till suddenly the pen will move no more ……

Let all my themes within _ of ancient light, of origins and chances and human worth _

Let all their melodies still intertwine, Evolve and merge with ever-growing unity. Ever without fading. Ever without a final chord ……

Till suddenly my mind can hear no more

I do not edit Wiki - but should the editors feel this aspect of her life worthy of mention then please include it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.93.77.94 (talk) 00:06, 31 August 2012 (UTC)

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Andrew Pontzen
Two brief points:


 * 1) Andrew Pontzen has a new book, The Universe in a Box (2023), which talks a little bit about Tinsley's research.
 * 2) In conversation with Sean M. Carroll on his podcast, Pontzen recently said that Tinsley was the first person to simulate a galaxy on a computer in the late 1960s.  Looking into this, I think Pontzen meant on a digital computer, but he also might have implied she was the first woman to do so, I don't know.

Having said that, I took a look at Pontzen's new book to see if I could flesh this out a bit, but I wasn't able to find anything specific to that claim. Viriditas (talk) 08:40, 26 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Update: I took a look at several of the sources in the further reading section. There is some material about her work on computer programming the simulation on the university computer, so I think that’s what Pontzen was talking about.  Still trying to figure out how to word it. Viriditas (talk) 00:16, 27 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Found a related tweet. Viriditas (talk) 02:42, 27 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Writer Kristina Panos: "Beatrice created the first computer model of a galaxy to prove her point and in doing so, she founded the field of galaxy evolution." Viriditas (talk) 02:44, 27 June 2023 (UTC)