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A ‘Sleeping Beauty in Science’ is a publication that goes unnoticed (‘sleeps’) for a long time and then, almost suddenly, attracts a lot of attention (‘is awakened by a prince’).
Sleeping Beauties in science Anthony F. J. van Raan 2024
ruzuzu commented on the word sleeping beauty
I have a friend whose three-year-old daughter loved to have her parents read Sleeping Beauty to her as a bedtime story. She would grab the book off the shelf and ask, "Can we read weeping booty?"
June 1, 2010