– FROM THE ARCHIVE – (It’s Nobel season! Please enjoy a few from our archive on this topic) As of November 2005, 776 Nobel Prizes have been awarded (758 to individuals, 18 to organizations) in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, peace, and economics. In that same month, according to the U.S. Bureau of Census, there were an estimated 6,469,818,677 people alive in the world. Consequently, the average person (or even the average scientist) has a very small chance of winning a Nobel Prize or even ever knowing anyone who has done so. However, there is a very small group of people…
The Science Creative Quarterly
By angelabeckett
Angela Beckett is a born and raised Vancouverite currently pursuing her Nobel Prize. For a few months, it was a toss up for her whether to work towards winning a Nobel Prize or winning the World Poker Tour (both have their pros). She started to play poker professionally, or at least in shady casinos, but alas failed to make in into the Tour. She then
decided to make her trek towards the Nobel Prize. Firstly, she had to choose a category...obviously not economics since she had wanted to play poker for a living. Since a Beckett has already won in the literature category, she felt the odds would be skewed against her. With three categories left, she flipped a coin and chose medical research (luckily there wasn\'t a math category). And the count down begins.....
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At the outset of his 1902 publication in the Lancet, Dr. John Beard discloses that as an embryologist he is not the most socially licensed scientist to be proposing a theory regarding the etiology of cancer. He advises that it is the current protocol for this subject matter to be left to the surgeons and pathologists, as it is concerned with dying, not of coming-into-being. Beard boldly notes that these professionals had thus far failed to define the cause of cancer. He goes on to reason that an embryologist may have more success at this task, as cancer is ultimately…
THE RNA TIE CLUB AND LESSONS TO BE LEARNED IN HOW TO WIN A NOBEL PRIZE
As of November 2005, 776 Nobel Prizes have been awarded (758 to individuals, 18 to organizations) in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, peace, and economics. In that same month, according to the U.S. Bureau of Census, there were an estimated 6,469,818,677 people alive in the world. Consequently, the average person (or even the average scientist) has a very small chance of winning a Nobel Prize or even ever knowing anyone who has done so. However, there is a very small group of people whose odds of winning this estute award are exponentially increased. These people were the members of an elite…