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...There are quite a few people at Harvard who have done work worthy of the prize," says Baird Professor of Science Dudley R. Herschbach, who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1986. "When they might receive it, no one can say. But what's important is that they're here...
...fact, maybe only at Harvard would a four-year period without a Nobel be called a "drought," Herschbach says...
...things into perspective, there are many nations in the world where not a single Nobel Prize has been awarded," he says. "There are only four countries in the world which have received more Noble Prizes than Harvard: Great Britain, France, Germany and, of course, the United States...
...Nobel Prize Committee tries to avoid favoring any one nation, Corey says...
...Nobel committee bends over backwards to see that certain countries with noteworthy scientists are not neglected because of lower profile," he says. "It's unlikely that they would want to concentrate it in one country, let alone one university...