Word: prizes
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...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...
Even so, the institution of the Nobel prize retains significance for science because of the exposure it receives in the general public...
...Ideally, the prize popularizes the important scientific developments of the day. It has a large propaganda value," Glashow said...
Glashow also defended the Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, which he participated in, when it came under attack in 1996 for trivializing serious scientific research...
This change in the organizational structure of science has made prizes for individuals less relevant as incentives to research, Mendelsohn said. But he said that, for Nobel laureates, the prize is still meaningful...