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Nobel Prizes reward individual achievement, but arguably there seems to be less and less of that in science, with many papers that can have 50 or 100 authors plus (especially some very populous Chinese papers, where it is difficult for non-chinese speakers to tell one author from another!)
I think there is still such a thing as the individual genius who sees further than others and makes a major discovery, but science is increasingly a collaborative endeavour.......so perhaps the Nobel prizes should be "reformed" to reflect the idea that many discoveries are now made by gigantic groups of people.
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