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Why don't they hand out science Nobel prizes on the same basis as the Peace prize?

10 October 2009 , ,
Barack Obama has been award the Nobel Prize for Peace essentially for effort – he’s trying hard, saying the right things but not yet delivered concrete results. (He’s also got much less closer to nuclear disarmament than Ronald Regan got in the Reykjavik summit with Mikhail Gorbachev.) I’m pretty underwhelmed by the award as I would rather [...]