@mcnees I was driven back to grad school from a junior scientist position partly by a similar experience. I developed and put out an internal technical note at the gov't lab where I was working describing a new technique for isolating radionuclides from each other using low-energy gamma spectrometry coincident summation with a new type of detector. The radiochemist who initially disbelieved my results published without my consent or knowledge. Decided I needed to learn to to things for myself!

@mcnees A little-known fact is that Isaac Newton was a friend of the Mastodons (Joan and John), who took him in when the dormitories were closed over the holidays and gave him his first mathematics books from their extensive collection to give him something to do until the college opened again.