| Nobel prize; Another local from Duke | |
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| chatham | Oct 7 2015, 06:19 AM Post #1 |
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Congratulations to Duke's own Paul Modrich and sharing it with two other chemists, one from Sweden and the third from UNC chapel hill.it was for studies involving DNA repair mechanisms. I am proud to say that I personally know Paul as I worked in the lab next door to his at Duke. He is just a great person who enjoys life and is one of the more brilliant scientists I have ever met. Ralph snyderman was the other one at Duke whom I was fortunate enough this to collaborate with. Congratulations to them all and Duke.. But not to the man at the top who will probably make this achievement nauseating to many. |
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| kbp | Oct 7 2015, 06:34 AM Post #2 |
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The award is a pat of your back, IMO, due for association with such successful people! |
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| LTC8K6 | Oct 7 2015, 06:54 AM Post #3 |
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Giving a prize to Obama, and then admitting that they awarded Obama for what they expected him to do, has really tainted the whole thing, imo. |
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| Rusty Dog | Oct 7 2015, 07:19 AM Post #4 |
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I believe it is a different committee deciding each of the different prizes. I agree the Peace Prize is tainted. I have a very soft spot in my heart for the Chemistry Dept at Duke. From Dr Bonk in my freshman year to Dr. Baldwin who was vocal against the Duke/Brodhead position during the hoax/frame years. Thanks Chatham for posting this. And congratulations to Dr. Modrich! |
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| DukieInKansas | Oct 7 2015, 08:38 AM Post #5 |
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I regret that I didn't take Bonkistry - but as a business major, it didn't occur to me. I like science - so I should have taken it. |
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| Baldo | Oct 7 2015, 09:39 AM Post #6 |
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Honestly I just see who wins the Nobel in the Science fields. It is a prestigious award. Congrats to Paul Modrich. It is a life changing acknowledgement Since the Nobel is a subjective award there have been errors even in the Sciences as worthy individuals never got credit. Sometimes individuals are excluded in the team discoveries. As for Peace & Literature categories, and to a lesser extent Economics, I believe at times it is a political decision and don't pay much attention to those winners. Ex-Nobel committee exec regrets Obama Peace Prize Former Secretary of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee Geir Lundestad reportedly notes in his new book that the body “didn't achieve what it had hoped for” when it gave Barack Obama the benefit of the doubt and conferred the prestigious award on him in 2009. While it is quite rare for Nobel officials to openly discuss the nuts and bolts of their secretive committee, the former director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute has apparently owned up in his memoir ‘Secretary of Peace’, to be released on Thursday, that the panel had expected the award to somewhat challenge Obama, who received the Nobel Peace Prize during his first term. The Norwegian historian told AP that the committee "thought it would strengthen Obama and it didn't have this effect." The five members of the Nobel Committee, often former politicians, are appointed by the Norwegian parliament. The coveted award was met with an avalanche of criticism instead. An army of opponents noted that Obama had made no foreign policy achievements worthy of the prize in less than nine months in office. On top of this, he received the award while the US was engaged in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. "Even many of Obama's supporters believed that the prize was a mistake," Lundestad wrote in excerpts of the book, read by AP. "In that sense the committee didn't achieve what it had hoped for," Lundestad, who stepped down last year after 25 years as the non-voting secretary of the secretive committee, added...snipped https://www.rt.com/news/315701-obama-peace-prize-mistake/ Obama could be accused of having caused less Peace & making the world more dangerous by his poor decisions |
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| chatham | Oct 7 2015, 12:03 PM Post #7 |
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My apologies to Ralph snyderman. It was not Ralph snyderman that won the Nobel prize from Duke. It was Robert Lefkowitz. Although snyderman could win one in the future. Just a quick non PC comment that I hope does not offend anyone but if it does <shrugs> This thread was started to celebrate tha achievements of some quality people. Let's not ruin it by speaking about what's his name who hates America. Thanks |
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| cks | Oct 7 2015, 12:22 PM Post #8 |
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What you said about the sciences is true. In the past, the body of one's work was looked at even if one made an important discovery early on that was not necessarily rewarded (by a prize) as it was felt by the Nobel Committee that to do so could result in the awardee resting on his laurels and nothing further would be done. This long standing rule was modified when the award was given to Bishop and Vartus (I think this is the correct spelling) for their work. Sometimes people who contributed were overlooked (an example is when the woman who did work in DNA and was instrumental in the sequencing was overlooked while Watson and Crick were honored yet what they did depended on her work as well. My husban's father was nominated at a very young age for his work in chemistry - but the award was given to Notta for the same work. Notta was much older and had been working in the field for some time but he admitted after the award was given that my father-in-law's theories and lab work formed his work. My father-in-law was in his early thirties at the time. He would have a long and distinguished career in chemistry (in industry) before retiring to teach for many years at his alma mater where he had many NSF grants where he mentored and influenced many young scientists - one of whom, the aforementioned Stephen Bishop, who was the son of good friends of my in-laws. Sometimes it is a very small world! Congratulations to the Duke and UNC chemists on their achievements and to all those who have worked with them or were fortunate enough to take classes with them. My father-in-law often said that it was the questions of his students along with their own studies that served as inspiration in his own studies. |
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