Talk:Gerta Keller

A fact from Gerta Keller appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 18 June 2009 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that paleontologist Gerta Keller theorizes that dinosaurs did not become extinct until 300,000 years after the Chicxulub meteor, though she agrees that "I'm sure the day after, they had a headache"?

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I am here to make updates to this wiki that need to be made to reflect the truth. Gerta Keller is a Princeton Prof. who recieved emeritus status - she is highly notable so i dont know what you are thinking by suggesting otherwise. Not only is she notable but she is recognized as an expert in her field of work and her awards/honors/fellowship list is endless and posted on princeston.edu the only noob getting erased will be the ones on here who try to erase the truth. — Preceding unsigned comment added by TheRightofHerWay (talk • contribs) 20:51, 5 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

a full list of awards still needs to be added.

Specific examples of her work still need to be added. TheRightofHerWay (talk) 23:02, 17 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I restored this article because I'm quite certain that this person is notable enough for an article. Please give me and others a little time to work this out, thanks! --Joann e B 20:56, 6 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

thank you TheRightofHerWay (talk) 20:54, 5 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You should remove this. It's just another vanity page for a non-notable scientitian. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.34.234.247 (talk • contribs)

You have to love when a true expert can discern that this "scientitian" is not notable. Alansohn (talk) 22:57, 11 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

remove this noobs page. gerta is just another wannabe getting in the way of big science. lets flush this turd down the toilet back into the obscurity she deserves —Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.77.51.31 (talk) 02:39, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That your one and only contribution (unsigned IP!) bothers with Gerta Keller proves that she is notable enough. It is true there is a Science review of the Alvarez hypothesis: Schulte, Peter (5 March 2010). "The Chicxulub Asteroid Impact and Mass Extinction at the Cretaceous- Paleogene Boundary". Science. 327 (5970): 1214–1218. doi:10.1126/science.1177265. Retrieved 2010-03-08. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)). But the review did not tell anything new and the coupling of sulfur dioxide emissions, flood basalts and extinction events seems quite clear too, the whole story is not uncovered yet:

Ward, Peter L. (2 April 2009). "Sulfur Dioxide Initiates Global Climate Change in Four Ways" (PDF). Thin Solid Films. 517 (11): 3188–3203. doi:10.1016/j.tsf.2009.01.005. Retrieved 2010-03-19.
"The Siberian Traps and the End-Permian mass extinction: a critical review" (PDF), Chinese Science Bulletin, 54 (1), Springer: 20–37, January 2009, retrieved 09-04-2010 {{citation}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help); Unknown parameter |authors= ignored (help)
Reichow, Marc K. (2009). "The timing and extent of the eruption of the Siberian Traps large igneous province: Implications for the end-Permian environmental crisis" (PDF). Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 277: 9–20. Retrieved 09-04-2010. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
Whiteside, Jessica H. (March 22, 2010). "Compound-specific carbon isotopes from Earth's largest flood basalt eruptions directly linked to the end-Triassic mass extinction". PNAS. doi:10.1073/pnas.1001706107. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
Rampino, Michael R. (April 1, 2010). "Mass extinctions of life and catastrophic flood basalt volcanism (commentary to Whiteside et al., 2010)". PNAS. doi:10.1073/pnas.1002478107. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help) --Chris.urs-o (talk) 03:51, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
glad wiki has actual editors that know how to science and keep wiki sound and legit TheRightofHerWay (talk) 23:19, 5 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Collaborate on the updates - I am not going anywhere

Hello,

There are updates that need to be made. If you would like to delete my updates, i will delete yours. We can either work together or be silly but my updates were taken right off the Princeton page. If you would like to re-word how I worded my previous update .. lets talk. Otherwise i will simply re-do it because it is an accurate update.

what was the issue with the update i provided? TheRightofHerWay (talk) 20:44, 5 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Women Scientist Project

Gerta Keller is a perfect example of beating all odds as a woman to get to the top of her career.

1. She grew up on a struggling dairy farm and, as a girl, was not predestined for an intellectual path. Still, with only vocational training, she managed to get into college in San Francisco and went on to get a doctorate in geology and paleontology from Stanford. Along the way, she was faced with gender related adversity - which she fought against. Things, for example, such as organizing her fellow students when a teacher refused to let the girls come to school in pants.

2. Not only has she stood up against sexist remarks, for her entire career as a Princeton professor, she has been a leading critic of the established theory of dinosaur extinction. Which her at odds with the scientific establishment, she has been shouted down at conferences, subjected to bitter, aggressive, and unfair attacks, *as you can see in the talk page, but that is nothing compared to other attacks*

Time and time again, there have been science theories that, once accepted as mainstream, despite having holes, are defended at all cost. Anyone, including other scientists, who dares to challenge the status quo is denounced, ridiculed, and attacked. This type of behavior is to the detriment of science, as we have found that, in many cases, the mainstream theory has holes because it is, in fact, proven incorrect. In the end, whether that is the case here, is impossible to predict, but it is beside the point because her work has contributed to the field in either case. Most importantly, Gerta Keller is one of the few willing to be brave enough to challenge and question the obvious flaws in a mainstream theory, which forces and motivates science to continue to work to fill the knowledge gaps of that theory to either explain it, or eventually, as a science community to reject it and find alternative explanations. Keller has been a martyr in this process, taking the abuses for years, in the name of science.

She is a perfect example of a Woman in Science. Young girls deserve to learn about her, as a role model, and someone they can aspire to become.

I added her to the women's scientist project for these reasons. Her Wikipedia could be filled with much more content, including her awards, specific contributions (aside from just the controversy), and collaborations she has done with other scientists. TheRightofHerWay (talk) 23:48, 17 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

id like to add the pic featured in this article - anyone know if i can or is it protected?

Here Are The Couples Of Science Rivals You May Not Know - MobyGeek.com

[1]https://mobygeek.com/ict-news/couples-of-science-rivals-2441 TheRightofHerWay (talk) 00:00, 18 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keller's two marriages

Her first marriage was to one Tim Callahan, it lasted circa 1967-1971. (He apparently was the boyfriend in the car when she was shot almost to death.) See [2].

Her second marriage was to Andrew Majda, a very famous mathematician. They married in the 70s, and it lasted until his death in 2021. See [3] and [4] 128.91.40.237 (talk) 16:16, 26 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]