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Nobel Prizes This Year Offer Three Cheers for Slow Science

The scientific Nobels announced this week — in Physiology or Medicine, Physics and Chemistry — honored achievements rooted in fundamental research from decades ago.

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Richard Robson, left, one of the winners of this year’s Nobel Prize for Chemistry, with a student at the University of Melbourne. He and his co-laureates were recognized for work derived from experiments that began in the 1980s.
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