Word: prizes
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Respected scientists from various academies and academic institutions around the world are solicited for nominations in February every year. The prize-awarding institutions then research each candidates' work and vote on the recipient...
...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...
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...