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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 17 2016, @09:18PM
Dropping bombs on weddings and funerals is the opposite of "manly".
Dropping bombs on private homes, and in the process murdering women and children (even in adjacent homes), is the opposite of "precision".
Murdering non-combatants while there is no danger to the USAian aggressor on the other side of the planet is cowardly.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 17 2016, @10:07PM
So just go back to dropping a bomb and taking out the whole block: be a real Man.
Limiting causalities is for sissies.