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Story Archives of 'Nobel Prize'
Updating the Nobel Prize
By Virginia Prescott on Tuesday, October 6, 2009.We begin today with congratulations for the three winners of the Nobel Prize for physics, announced today in Stockholm. Scientists the world over acknowledge the venerable institution for bringing honor and interest to scientific quandary.
But, as a group of influential scientists recently wrote in a letter published in New Scientist magazine, a prize established in 1895 could not have foreseen the challenges facing today’s researchers. The three Nobel Prizes for science are awarded each year in physics, chemistry, and physiology or medicine. So what’s falling through the cracks?
The group of ten, including a Nobel Prize winner among them, think it's time for an update, lest the distinction lose its influence and relevancy. Jim Giles is a reporter with New Scientist. He initiated and organized the campaign.
We also speak to primatologist and ethologist Frans de Waal, author of many books, including most recently The Age of Empathy. And he’s one of the ten scientists who helped draft this letter.
Open letter to the Nobel prize committee
