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Originally Posted by Slite
Incidently, then Nobel-comitee who chooses the winners are considered a big joke here in sweden. Especially for the Literture prize winner. They go out of their way to find the most obscure writer they can find that the majority of readers have never heard of and give them the prize.
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I don't think that's true for the science prizes. They seem to go to people who've done genuinely groundbreaking work. Eg, I don't think you'd find too many people who'd argue that Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier don't deserve the prize for medicine for discovering that the HIV virus is the virus responsible for AIDS.