Being Maori myself, but with an MSc in biomedical engineering and a couple of minor journal papers published back in the 90s, I seriously doubt he's the first Maori physicist.
As an example, the R language and platform was created by a Maori mathematician. The REST hypermedia architecture, a core design style of the internet, was created by a US computer scientist of Maori descent.
The referenced article irks on so many levels, the least of which is the underlying woke, racist, internalised belief that this level achievement is clearly an outlier for us poor downtrodden minorities.
Being Maori myself, but with an MSc in biomedical engineering and a couple of minor journal papers published back in the 90s, I seriously doubt he's the first Maori physicist.
As an example, the R language and platform was created by a Maori mathematician. The REST hypermedia architecture, a core design style of the internet, was created by a US computer scientist of Maori descent.
The referenced article irks on so many levels, the least of which is the underlying woke, racist, internalised belief that this level achievement is clearly an outlier for us poor downtrodden minorities.
Thanks for the info! And yeah, I'm sure he's not the first one, just the only one who grifts on it.
Exactly - not much more to be said, really 🫤