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Has Houghton actually accepted? He's turned down past prizes because some of his colleagues weren't included. (to answer my own question - yes, he has now."Hou
by Mvandenbergh 6y ago
Has Houghton actually accepted? He's turned down past prizes because some of his colleagues weren't included.
(to answer my own question - yes, he has now."Houghton accepted the Nobel but said he hoped future award committees would recognise larger groups of scientists. “Great science, often, is a group of people and I think going forward we somehow need to acknowledge that,” he said"
- dorchadas 6y agoThis is a big issue with the Nobel Prizes in general, especially with how much science is done collaboratively now. I have a professor who missed winning the one for the expansion of the universe as he was the third or fourth author of the paper, and the committee caps the prize at 3. He was the lead author of a different paper from the group which excited him more, and that's what cost him a chance at the Nobel Prize, though he still got to visit Stockholm and the ceremony. It's just in general a weird way to look at things, when teams are so big anymore.