—The editors of Scientific American, in an essay casting the Nobel Prize as a “charming anachronism” that needs to evolve to reflect the realities of modern scientific inquiry
(Oct. 8, 2012)
—Developmental biologist John Gurdon, who shared this year’s Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, with University of California, San Francisco, stem cell biologist Shinya Yamanaka, for discovering that adult cells could be reprogrammed to behave like stem cells (Oct. 9. 2012)
—Nobel laureate Paul Nurse, President of the Royal Society, in a New York Times article about the venerated institution’s role in modern politics (Sept. 4, 2012)
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