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Re:Nobel Prize in Chemistry Is Awarded to 3 Evolutionary Sci... by hackinthebochs on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @12:34PM (#18131949)
Notable in this context meaning notable to the general public. But wikipedia isn't for original research, and so it needs some external institution to validate notability to the general public. A Nobel prize is one such mechanism.
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Re:Nobel Prize in Chemistry Is Awarded to 3 Evolutionary Sci... by twanvl on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @12:46PM (#18132113)
Wikipedia is not just for the general public, many pages go into a lot of detail, and to people who understand the details of certain subfields of chemistry, these people might be well-known. I'm not a chemist, so I wouldn't know in this case.
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