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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:
- Gaston Ramon: 155 (Physiology or Medicine)
- Emile Roux: 115 (Physiology or Medicine)
- Arnold Sommerfeld: 84 (Physics)
- Rene Leriche: 79 (Physiology or Medicine)
- Jacques Loeb: 78 (Physiology or Medicine)
- Albert Calmette 77 (Physiology or Medicine)
- Rudolf Weigl 75 (Physiology or Medicine)
- Christopher Ingold 68 (Chemistry)
- Walter Reppe 63 (Chemistry)
- Aldo Castellani 61 (Physiology or Medicine)
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 Thexalon on Monday October 17 2016, @03:36PM
Obama's phony Peace Prize wasn't even close to the end of that prize meaning something. They really ended it as a serious thing when they gave one to Henry Kissinger, apparently for expanding the Vietnam War into only 3 other countries that really had nothing to do with the conflict in question.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 17 2016, @06:48PM
...and, even though they -knew- that any combatants in Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand were out in the jungle where they couldn't easily be found, Kissinger and his henchmen had villages in those countries bombed--places that they -knew- were full of NON-COMBATANTS.
Evil bastards. War criminals.
...and there are STILL millions of bomblets from cluster bombs all over those countries STILL killing and maiming--mainly children to whom they appear to be toys.
...and USA **STILL** hasn't forsworn the use of cluster bombs.
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(Score: 1) by Francis on Monday October 17 2016, @09:03PM
And you don't think being the first black man elected to be head of state of a non-black country doesn't deserve recognition?
Regardless of ones views of what he did with the opportunity, proving to the world that black people can be heads of state in places where they aren't the majority is a lot more important than a lot of the other things they've handed the award for. I'm not sure why people bitch about Obama when others are far less deserving. Yasser Arafat springs instantly to mind.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 17 2016, @10:26PM
In his youth, black men who couldn't get into college and couldn't subsequently get student deferments ended up in Vietnam, then in body bags.
...yet Obama is a Neoconservative, ratcheting up the war machine even worse than Dubya.
Regardless of [ones'] views of what he did with the opportunity
He has made every attempt to join the 1 Percent and has feathered his nest at the expense of Joe Average.
...and, in particular, he hasn't ended the racist War on Drugs nor improved the racist "justice" system.
He's an oreo. [urbandictionary.com]
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