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How fair is it for just three people to receive the Nobel Prize in physics?

  • Written by Caroline Wagner, Milton & Roslyn Wolf Chair in International Affairs, The Ohio State University
imageAlfred Nobel didn't foresee the current era of mega scientific collaboration.© Nobel Media AB Pi Frisk

The Nobel Foundation statutes decree that “in no case” can a Nobel Prize be divided between more than three people. So it may not raise many eyebrows that the 2017 award in physics went to just three scientists on the LIGO team for...

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