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Scientist sues Nobel assembly for awarding medicine prize to wrong people

BMJ 2012; 345 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.e8414 (Published 11 December 2012) Cite this as: BMJ 2012;345:e8414

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Re: Scientist sues Nobel assembly for awarding medicine prize to wrong people

Prizes are precious but precarious. Our birth is gratis, but then we pursue status, chasing the chalice, which all too often becomes a poisoned chalice.

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12 December 2012
Hugh Mann
Physician
Retired
Eagle Rock, MO, USA