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interestingly 2 out of 3 were born outside of USA: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2009/ http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laure
by borism 17y ago
interestingly 2 out of 3 were born outside of USA: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2009/ http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2009/
- hughprime 17y agoActually I find the nationalities of the winners to be the least interesting part of Nobel Prize season. Apart from opportunities for nationalist chest-thumping, brow-beating and/or hand-wringing, who cares? On the other hand, I bet if you were to go to the newspapers of the home countries of the two researchers not born in the US you wouldn't find the headline "Three Americans win Nobel Prize". Hmm, let me check... Yup! The Age (Melbourne) currently has the headline "Our Beautiful Mind: Scientist Australia's first woman Nobel laureate". (Can't find an equivalent in the UK just now -- there are enough British Nobel laureates that they don't need to get excited over each one.)
- borism 17y agoyes, I was not trying to stress their nationality (one has dual anyway).