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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020

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dup https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24706670

They are currently engaged in a patent dispute with the Broad Institute on the use of CRISPR on eukaryotic cells and so it was believed that they would not win the Nobel until the dispute was resolved.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/09/latest-round-crispr-...

Wow, what a plot twist. The Broad Institute researchers got nothing, even though they are currently winning the patent wars. Fascinating.

Sometimes the Nobel makes a pointed statement. As for instance when Einstein got his in 1921, over a decade after his 1905 paper on relativity, for the photoelectric effect, and no mention of special relativity, since it had actually been discovered by Poincaré and Lorentz, and the Academy disapproved of Einstein claiming credit for it.

A brief history of CRISPR and its key contributors:

https://www.broadinstitute.org/what-broad/areas-focus/projec...

You forget to mention the Broad Institute is not a disinterested party, they stand to make a lot of money from patents, and thus have a strong incentive to inflate their own claims and minimize those of others.

Great and overdue. I was just telling my mother yesterday that it was a travesty the inventors of CRISPR hadn't been honored yet with the Medicine Nobel.

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 was awarded jointly to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna "for the development of a method for genome editing.

Congrats. This technology may be the start of something very big.

Certainly well-deserved; CRISPR is a transformational invention.

So can I make my eyes blue now?

Francis Mojica, Virginjus Siksnys and others were practically removed from the way.

https://twitter.com/LluisMontoliu/status/1313780608305332224

Virginijus was our (Lithuania) best recent chance to get a Nobel prize winner :(

IIRC both these individuals emphasized that their work wouldn't had been possible without many other things working. But then i guess that is how awards work i guess.

I guess being the first one, might have some merit, right? Mújica was who discover it in 1993. This how science and awards works now: the system corruption is pervasive. There is no potential explanation to exclude Mújica from such award, otherwise.

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