I used to work on protein structure about ten years ago. Back then, the mood kind of changed from “solve this and you have a Nobel waiting”: the general opinio

I used to work on protein structure about ten years ago. Back then, the mood kind of changed from “solve this and you have a Nobel waiting”: the general opinion was that progress was both significant and piecemeal, making it unlikely a Nobel will be awarded because “cracking it”would end up being to hard to assign to any three people.