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Should all Nobel Prizes be canceled for a year?

  • Written by Brian Keating, Professor of Physics, University of California San Diego
Should all Nobel Prizes be canceled for a year?A postage stamp printed in Norway showing an image of Alfred Nobel, circa 2001.catwalker/Shutterstock.com

If you ever meet someone who claims to have nearly won the Nobel Prize in mathematics, walk away: You’re dealing with a deeply delusional individual. While there isn’t, and has never been, a Nobel in mathematics, the desire to claim...

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