[kjax]

Ask HN: Are there any noteworthy researchers who have been similarly shunned for their contrarian-yet-sound scientific proclamations in recent decades?

[inglor_cz]

Katalin Karikó, one of the most important scientists in the mRNA field, was demoted by University of Pennsylvania in the late 1990s because her research was considered impractical and a waste of time. While not a total shunning, it is anyway quite a demeaning experience.

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/mrna-coronavirus-vaccine-pfi...

A generation later, she is considered a good candidate for the Nobel Prize.

[lupire]

Not just impractical, but was fatal. She was demoted until she figured how to make it not fatal.

[halpert]

Galileo Galilei?

[lupire]

Galileo was punished for repeatedly insulting the Pope, not for his science.