Nobel Prize: How to win and why it’s so difficult to guess a winner

CNN — The short listis secret, as are the nominators, and documents revealing the juicy details are sealed from public view for 50 years. Pandemic medicine Unlike the peace prize, which often raises some eyebrows, the science prizes tend to honor achievements that have withstood the test of time – last year’s prize in chemistry recognized research in the development of lithium batteries fromthe 1980sthat included honoring the oldest winner ever. “That work took place a long time ago but it just happens that it’s highly appropriate to what’s going on right now,” said Thompson, who has written a book on the achievements of Nobel Prize winners. “It’s conceivable that the Nobel Prize committee will latch onto that.” Eman Ghanem, membership director at Sigma Xi, a global association of around 30,000 scientists that includes some 200 Nobel prize winners, is hopeful that there will be a female Nobel Laureate in science after an all-male lineup in 2019. However, Pendlebury said a win this year is unlikely because last year’s physics prize for the first discovery of planets outside our solar system, led by Princeton astrophysicist James Peebles, was from the same field.