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Man who discovered gfp (green fluorescent protein) was forgotten. Robert Tsien and Osamu Shimomura, and Chalfie got the nobel prize for it, not Douglas Prasher.
by j7ake 4y ago
Man who discovered gfp (green fluorescent protein) was forgotten. Robert Tsien and Osamu Shimomura, and Chalfie got the nobel prize for it, not Douglas Prasher.
The most recent example would be Virginius Siksnys. He did not get the Nobel prize for crispr but it was Doudna and Charpentier who got it instead.
- sn41 4y agoOh dear, yes. I read the biography of Jennifer Doudna by Walter Isaacson. It's a great book, but I really felt sad for Siksnys. Just because their paper got rejected by Cell does not mean that the paper came after Doudna and Charpentier's - after all, it was submitted earlier than Doudna and Charpentier's. The book overall was not very inspiring with the amount of persnickety politics - but then, perhaps, that's how science is, in the day-to-day grind.
- j7ake 4y agoAlso there is precedent for Nobel-level papers coming in within months of each other and still be considered for Nobel prize. See circadian rhythms with Michael Young and Michael Rosbash. They both got Nobel prizes, but one of the papers are several months after the other. In the gfp case the three winners also dis their work independently if I am not mistaken. The Siksnys case was discrimination against unknown institutes from unknown countries plain and simple.