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Nominees in each category are selected by various organizations as stipulated in Nobel's will. The prizes for physics and chemistry are administered by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences...
...almost every case the winners of the Nobel prize in science have been deserving," he said. "It's also true that some scientists have been neglected...
...There have been some amusing examples" of mistakes on the part of the prize-awarding committees, Glashow said. He cited the 1906 and 1937 Nobel prizes in physics which recognized J.J. Thomson for discovering the electron as a particle, and subsequently his son for discovering it as a wave...
Among the idiosyncrasies of the prize as described in Nobel's will, mathematics and astronomy are not included among the scientific fields honored...
...reason for the Nobel prize's fame as compared with other scientific prizes is its age, Mendelsohn said. The Nobel prizes have been awarded annually since...