27 Aug
2014
27 Aug
'14
12:08 p.m.
On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 12:53 PM, Gustavus Simmons <gsimmons30@comcast.net> wrote:
Of course oversights abound. The most obvious being not awarding the Nobel prize in medicine to Jonas Salk who discovered the first polio vaccine and almost eliminating what had been a worldwide scourge. Salk lived another 42 years after his vaccine was introduced so there was ample time for them to have awarded him the prize.
I think that only ranks as #2 in Nobel Prize oversights. #1 has to be Relativitry. EInstein got a Nobel for his work on the photoelectric effect, but never received one for Special and General Relativity. Andy