Göran Hansson

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The great Nobel Prize hypocrisy

Oct 13, 2021 4 min read

Katie Langin's report for Science on October 12 is an eye-opening account of one reason why the committees that pick every year's Nobel Prize winners almost never pick women: because they aren…

Why are the Nobel Prizes still relevant?

Oct 16, 2019 6 min read

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Note: A condensed version of this post has been published in The Wire. Around this time last week, the world had nine new Nobel Prize winners in the sciences (physics, chemistry and medicine), all bu…