--- Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> wrote:
* "[T]he American share [of the Novel Prizes], after peaking from the 1960's through the 1990's, has fallen in the 2000's to about half, 51 percent. The rest went to Britain, Japan, Russia, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland and New Zealand." --
Aren't most Nobels given out in the hard sciences for work that is a decade or more old and so is seen as having stood the test of time? Zhores Alferov got the Noble for physics in 2000 for work he did in the Brezhnev era (I think).
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