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Lindau 2010: The Science Of The Nobel Prizes

Lindau 2010: The Science Of The Nobel Prizes

As a Network full of scientists, it’s small wonder that we regularly get excited by the research behind the Nobel prizes. M. William Lensch, on The Red Pill blog, even devised a Nobel Nostradamus Pool in an attempt to predict the winners. In 2007, he correctly guessed that Oliver Smithies, Mario Capecchi and Martin Evans would scoop the 2007 Physiology or Medicine prize for work leading to mouse knockouts, and was bang on the money two years later in predicting that Szostak, Greider and Blackburn would get the same prize for their work on telomerase and telomeres.  Read more