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Re:2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Is Awarded to ... by zhemao on Monday October 03, 2016 @01:26PM (#12629414)
The Nobel Prizes in science are generally awarded a few decades after the fact. That gives enough time for the impact of the work to become clear.
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Re:2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Is Awarded to ... by jsferrei on Monday October 03, 2016 @01:58PM (#12629738)
Very true. It took 8 years for Craig Mello and Andrew Fire to be awarded for RNAi (published 1998, awarded 2006 -- and that was considered fast). CRISPR as a gene engineering tool isn't even that old yet, so we've got a few years.
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Re:2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Is Awarded to ... by apathy on Monday October 03, 2016 @11:57PM (#12633237)
Counter example: yamanaka
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