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Who will win the Nobel Prize? Cast your vote

Posted October 02, 2008 9:36 AM

From Scientific American:

It's Nobel time again, the holiday season of nerds and geeky gamblers. With the prize committee scheduled to announce this year's winners beginning Oct. 6, European Web sites are already taking bets, and a leading information-service provider is out today with its annual predictions. Thomson Reuters names 15 scientists and six economists as the likely winners, based on how often their published works are cited in journals. This is the seventh straight year the company has offered its picks for the coveted prize; since then, it's been right less than one-fifth of the time, correctly predicting five of the 28 winners since 2002.

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Re: Who will win the Nobel Prize? Cast your vote

10/02/2008 9:31 PM

Unfortunately the Nobel Prize Committee do not always get it right.

For Political Correctness and other criteria, the best choice does not always receive the Nobel Prize.

We shall see next week, what sort of selection is made for this year's round of Nobel Prize Awards.

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