During this Nobel Prize season where we celebrate the annual winners, Nature has gone through the Nobel archives and compiled a top ten list of the most nominated, but never won people. The "winners" are:
The Nobel commission doesn't reveal nomination information for at least 50 years, so one can't say who really has the most nominations. There are a plethora of reasons these people never won the award because the prestige of the prize brings in a variety of factors that have little to do with merit.
"A kaleidoscope of human agency is necessarily involved in awarding the Nobel Prize, as with any other prize," says Friedman. "There are no grounds for assuming the winners of the Nobel Prize constitute a unique population of the very 'best' in science."
(Score: 2) by RamiK on Monday October 17 2016, @05:31AM
What was there to cheapen? The Nobel was an arms industry award to to begin with. It was simply the age of colonialism so Academia played along.
Even in the research awards and hard sciences, they're always focused on gradual industrial advancements and non-disruptive technologies and avoided rewarding basic research until products or an entire field established on the discovery.
Their criteria, a secret. The process of nominations, opaque. What do you expect but corruption?
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