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...Nobel prizes in the sciences have traditionally been awarded for research which has been accepted by the scientific community over a number of years. Chu's work on the use of lasers to cool atoms was conducted...
Because of the generally long lag between scientific achievements and their recognition by the Nobel committees, Chu said that "as [atom cooling] became a common lab tool, there was a chorus of people who were telling me that I should be getting the Nobel prize...
...said that he did not alter his research goals in order to get a Nobel prize...
...Nobel prize was conceived of initially as a way of rewarding scientific inventiveness and through those rewards stimulating inventiveness," Mendelsohn said. "[Today,] it may have taken on something more of the role of providing status...
...position of the Nobel prize as a repository of the pretensions of science has left it open to ridicule in the form of the Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, held on Oct. 8 in Harvard's Sanders Theatre...