Nobel Prizes

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Nobel Prizes: Scoundrels, Saints and the Fiction of Individual Genius

Joshua Roebke 24/10/2020

The Nobel Prize does not reflect how science is...

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A Quick Intro To This Year’s Nobel Prize Winners in the Sciences

The Wire Staff 08/10/2020

Eight scientists were awarded the three Nobel Prizes in...

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How the Nobel Prize Maintains Science’s Inequalities – and How It Can Stop

Vasudevan Mukunth 05/10/2020

It is nonsensical to persist with the idea of...

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What the Nobel Prizes Are Not

Vasudevan Mukunth 08/10/2019

Winning a Nobel Prize may be a good thing...

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Medicine Nobel Prize for Doctors Who Discovered How Body Senses Low Oxygen

The Wire Staff 07/10/2019

This year’s prizes in the medicine category continue a...

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Abdus Salam the Physicist Won the Nobel Prize. Salam the Pakistani Elevated it.

Vasudevan Mukunth 07/10/2019

If political opportunism hadn't contrived until the end to...

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Why You Shouldn’t Measure Scientific Progress With Award-Winning Discoveries

Madhusudhan Raman 25/11/2018

The notion that science is invested in by the...