Telomeres win Nobel!

[Psi Wavefunction]

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medi ... ates/2009/

Hilariously enough, just a few hours before I was looking over Blackburn's telomere and telomerase papers (as an example of how some organisms can be odd in convenient (for us) ways), and thought "Have they won a Nobel for that yet? Discovery is kind of important, and it's about time anyway"

Fast forward a couple hours, and yeah... someone posted the first winners, and I read BLACKBURN in large letters!

Me iz psykik

[Gawdzilla Sama]

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medi ... ates/2009/

Hilariously enough, just a few hours before I was looking over Blackburn's telomere and telomerase papers (as an example of how some organisms can be odd in convenient (for us) ways), and thought "Have they won a Nobel for that yet? Discovery is kind of important, and it's about time anyway"

Fast forward a couple hours, and yeah... someone posted the first winners, and I read BLACKBURN in large letters!

Me iz psykik

The lab, it has a door. :sad:

[Psi Wavefunction]

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medi ... ates/2009/

Hilariously enough, just a few hours before I was looking over Blackburn's telomere and telomerase papers (as an example of how some organisms can be odd in convenient (for us) ways), and thought "Have they won a Nobel for that yet? Discovery is kind of important, and it's about time anyway"

Fast forward a couple hours, and yeah... someone posted the first winners, and I read BLACKBURN in large letters!

Me iz psykik

The lab, it has a door. :sad:

VPN (virtual tunneling) allows me to access my institutional subscriptions from the comfort of my own home, 24/7.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medi ... ates/2009/

Hilariously enough, just a few hours before I was looking over Blackburn's telomere and telomerase papers (as an example of how some organisms can be odd in convenient (for us) ways), and thought "Have they won a Nobel for that yet? Discovery is kind of important, and it's about time anyway"

Fast forward a couple hours, and yeah... someone posted the first winners, and I read BLACKBURN in large letters!

Me iz psykik

The lab, it has a door. :sad:

VPN (virtual tunneling) allows me to access my institutional subscriptions from the comfort of my own home, 24/7.

Virtual Peer Networking. Had that at Purdue. Porn loaded faster.

[Psi Wavefunction]

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medi ... ates/2009/

Hilariously enough, just a few hours before I was looking over Blackburn's telomere and telomerase papers (as an example of how some organisms can be odd in convenient (for us) ways), and thought "Have they won a Nobel for that yet? Discovery is kind of important, and it's about time anyway"

Fast forward a couple hours, and yeah... someone posted the first winners, and I read BLACKBURN in large letters!

Me iz psykik

The lab, it has a door. :sad:

VPN (virtual tunneling) allows me to access my institutional subscriptions from the comfort of my own home, 24/7.

Virtual Peer Networking. Had that at Purdue. Porn loaded faster.

Ah, so THAT'S what you learn in grad school! I'm excited!

[Clinton Huxley]

Jack W. Szostak cited on this. Born in the UK. We'll take that as a British Nobel prize then

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Ah, so THAT'S what you learn in grad school! I'm excited!

"It's a whole new world." Yeah, right. Grad school is undergrad without the good parts.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Jack W. Szostak cited on this. Born in the UK. We'll take that as a British Nobel prize then

He must have been working in the US. Ours.

[Psi Wavefunction]

While the Nobel thing is cool and all, one can only wonder how many equally or more hard-working deserving people have been screwed and stripped of any mention...

[Psi Wavefunction]

Jack W. Szostak cited on this. Born in the UK. We'll take that as a British Nobel prize then

He must have been working in the US. Ours.

Speaking of which, so who does Rutherford belong to?

[Clinton Huxley]

Jack W. Szostak cited on this. Born in the UK. We'll take that as a British Nobel prize then

He must have been working in the US. Ours.

So the USA has to import its brains

One of the women cited is from Tasmania. Which means she's british as well.

Come on, if we can claim Greg Rusedski we can claim anyone

[Clinton Huxley]

While the Nobel thing is cool and all, one can only wonder how many equally or more hard-working deserving people have been screwed and stripped of any mention...

Many, I'm sure. I see the Nobel committee turned down a proposal to have some new categories. Stick in the muds.

[Pappa]

While the Nobel thing is cool and all, one can only wonder how many equally or more hard-working deserving people have been screwed and stripped of any mention...

Interestingly, last week's New Scientist has an article about the need for a change to the categories. Chemistry, Physics, Medicine or Physiology and Peace are the only ones scientific achievements can be slotted into, sometimes badly. Some really important work can't be fitted in at all. The Nobel Foundation generally don't even discuss requests for change at their meetings though.

Edit: Clinton beat me to it.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Jack W. Szostak cited on this. Born in the UK. We'll take that as a British Nobel prize then

He must have been working in the US. Ours.

So the USA has to import its brains

One of the women cited is from Tasmania. Which means she's british as well.

Come on, if we can claim Greg Rusedski we can claim anyone

In the ten years ending in 2004, over 50% of the "hard science" Nobels went to people living in the US. We don't import our brains, you lot export them. Are they not needed there any more?

[Psi Wavefunction]

While the Nobel thing is cool and all, one can only wonder how many equally or more hard-working deserving people have been screwed and stripped of any mention...

Interestingly, last week's New Scientist has an article about the need for a change to the categories. Chemistry, Physics, Medicine or Physiology and Peace are the only ones scientific achievements can be slotted into, sometimes badly. Some really important work can't be fitted in at all. The Nobel Foundation generally don't even discuss requests for change at their meetings though.

Edit: Clinton beat me to it.

At the time (late 19th century?), Biology was just starting as a science, so the entire field, which is arguably the largest in the science industry at the moment, is deprived of any category. After all, biology and medicine are very different fields...