Word: mendelsohn
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...Nobel prize was conceived of initially as a way of rewarding scientific inventiveness and through those rewards stimulating inventiveness," Mendelsohn said. "[Today,] it may have taken on something more of the role of providing status...
Scientific research is a much larger industry today than it was a century ago, Mendelsohn said. Much of today's leading scientific research is conducted outside of traditional universities...
...Mendelsohn pointed to biotechnology and microelectronic engineering firms as new sources of the "stimulus for scientific inventiveness...
This change in the organizational structure of science has made prizes for individuals less relevant as incentives to research, Mendelsohn said. But he said that, for Nobel laureates, the prize is still meaningful...
...public] sees the winners [as] being rewarded for genius," Mendelsohn said. "In the scientific community, [Nobel laureates] are regarded as peers who were particularly clever." A NOBLE FACULTY The most recent 10 laureates from Harvard University Name Prize and Year Robert C. Merton Economic Sciences, 1997 Elias J. Corey Chemistry, 1990 Ramsey F. Norman Physics, 1989 Dudley R. Herschbach Chemistry, 1986 Nicolaas Bloembergen Physics, 1981 David H. Hubel Physiology/Medicine, 1981 Baruj Benacerraf Physiology/Medicine, 1980 Steven Weinberg Physics, 1979 William N. Lipscomb Chemistry, 1976 Wassily Leontief Economic Sciences, 1973 The Official Web site for the Nobel prizes