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And it gets better: ... Almost every year there’s been some sort of party because I’ve got another award. That’s much more fun.” So any idea how not to win th
by kowdermeister 8y ago
And it gets better:
... Almost every year there’s been some sort of party because I’ve got another award. That’s much more fun.”
So any idea how not to win the Nobel prize? :)
- olliej 8y agoI’m achieving so much success!
- ISL 8y agoDo Nobel-caliber work, and die before the award is given. There have been so many great potential laureates who have gone unrecognized by society at large because entropy caught up to them before the Nobel committee got around to them. Those who immediately come to mind: Debbie Jin and Ron Drever.
- bduerst 8y agoThen they just award it to your peers for your work - see Prospect Theory from Daniel Kahneman (winner) and Amos Tversky (deceased).
- dnautics 8y agoRosalind Franklin is a huge one. Everyone thinks she missed out because she was a woman, which might have been the case, but we'll never know.
- stan_rogers 8y agoShe was deceased by the time the Nobel was awarded. (She died of cancer in '58; the Nobel was in '62.) That's not to say that she wouldn't have lost out on the three-recipients rule being female, but being dead is an automatic disqualification.
- dnautics 8y agoThat was my point.
- scentoni 8y agoDo Nobel-caliber work along with 3 or more other people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicola_Cabibbo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicola_Cabibbo
- robdachshund 8y agoDo more than Obama. Which isn't much
- danso 8y agoHave your supervisor take credit for your work, as is what appears to have happened in Burnell’s case.
- contravariant 8y agoSolve quantum gravity in a way that can't possibly be confirmed empirically.
- dnautics 8y agoClyde Hutchison missed out on two - he discovered Type I restriction enzymes, but they're extremely difficult to understand because their behavior is stochastic, and as a result also not as useful (his buddy Hamilton Smith, won for Type II restriction enzymes, which are still being used). He also correctly identified (theoretically) the method by which site-directed mutagenesis would be done, published that, noting that it required advancements in oligonucleotide synthesis, then actually did the experiments in collaboration with Michael Smith, who won the nobel prize. He wasn't awarded the prize himself because it was split with Kary Mullis (who invented PCR). Possibly he was skipped over because Mullis and Smith were well known in the chemistry circles and Hutchison was more of a microbiologist, and the prize was a chemistry prize, not a physiology prize.
- wglb 8y agoI’ve been doing pretty well so far....