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That defeats the purpose of the prize, which is to inspire individuals (among other things). Fairness per se isn't the point.

Why not give the prize to a whole university, since the researchers couldn't do it without the admin staff and the students? Or to the whole country of taxpayers?




Because that would be wonderful. And we don't want things to be wonderful, right?


The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to organizations: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/lists/organizations.h...

Awarding the prize in chemistry or physics or medicine to a country seems like it would dilute the award beyond recognition.


I'm sure you appreciated the sarcasm anyways. Thanks for the link.




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