Nobel prizewinners show research drop-off

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Are academic prizes letting down the team?

‘Every young student of science has had a fantasy about winning a Nobel prize,’ says one laureate – and ever more rival prizes are being established. But with a cast of thousands currently pursuing the holy grail of a vaccine for Covid-19, might awards committees finally jettison their problematic focus on lone genius, asks Jack Grove

By Jack Grove

6 August

Award Nobels to teams, not individual ‘heroes’, say scientists

Scholars say group awards would place focus on discovery itself and help to mitigate bias

By Ellie Bothwell

14 October

Is the Nobel prize good for science?

David Matthews asks if elevating individuals to near-deity status undermines modern science’s purpose of deposing authority figures such as priests and popes

By David Matthews

5 July

Do great minds think alike? The THE/Lindau Nobel Laureates Survey

We share what 50 Nobel prizewinners think about issues facing science, universities and the world, from populist politics and researcher mobility, to artificial intelligence and threats to humankind

By Jack Grove

31 August

Nobel prizewinners show research drop-off

Stanford team tallies productivity decline after top global prize – though without assessing benefits of career transition

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Nobel prizewinners show research drop-off

Stanford team tallies productivity decline after top global prize – though without assessing benefits of career transition

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Related articles

Are academic prizes letting down the team?

Award Nobels to teams, not individual ‘heroes’, say scientists

Is the Nobel prize good for science?

Do great minds think alike? The THE/Lindau Nobel Laureates Survey

Related universities

Stanford University

University of Waterloo

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