“My pupil should have shared medicine Nobel”
Published: 06 October, 2009, 19:22
Edited: 16 February, 2010, 00:51
Aleksey Olovnikov, a Russian biologist, should have received part of the 2009 Nobel Prize for medicine and physiology on par with American researchers, believes his teacher. But the scientist himself remains silent.
@Artyom Henry Kissinger would be a better example
Crick's major result was shaped in for of one 2page paper but he received the prize... Olovnikov, who published two major articles in 1971 and 1973 pioneered the works with telomeres and theoretically predicted the end-replication problem.. I am sure - politics play a good role by the US sponsorship of the Nobel Prize Committee
I second that the Nobel Committee is too influenced with politics, media and economics. I'd like to know more about the process and methods behind choosing the winners.
In fact Nobel prize is purely western biased award. Past 100 years majority of the Nobel prize went to US and western alliance countries and forgetting Asian pacific countries. Hundreds of USSR scientists were not honored for their outstanding achievements and their work never came to the world knowledge.
The Nobel Prizes are as biased as the decisions of the United Nations. The will of the dominant country not only prevails - it parodies itself: Kissinger and Obama as princes of peace!!! Russia has a sad history of non-recognition by other countries for its scientific achievements. To mention a few in medicine: Dr Manassein (1841-1901), curative mould; Dr Tarasevich (died 1927), vaccination; Professor Lashchenkov, lysozyme; and, not least, Dr Zinaida Yermolyeva, tyrothricin and anti-biotics.
Nobel is already a political sham. Al Gore winning case and point.