Medicine Nobelist wants science awards to be ‘more inclusive’

Michael Houghton calls for prize committees to allow six or seven winners, rather than Nobel’s limit of three

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October 7, 2020
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Jack Grove
British virologist Michael Houghton
Source: University of Alberta
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#1 Submitted by ... on October 7, 2020 - 9:16am
It is well known and verifiable via data that Nobel prize winners are mostly scientifically related in some way (e.g., close collaborators, some supervisor-supervisee, some from the same or related labs). Good for this scientist for doing this to point this out.

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