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Old 10-24-2016, 6:31am   #17
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Originally Posted by DAB View Post
downside is that you have to be alive to win one. they take so long to evaluate a scientific discovery, that there's a good chance that the discoverer will be dead before the discovery is awarded.
Not really. Here at NIST, we have 5 NP winners. All in Physics.
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