Eric Davidson
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is instrumental against infection. The prize was given to the lab chief, Jules Hoffmann. But the first author on the paper, Bruno Lemaitre, has argued that he initiated the project and planned it, that he made the discovery that mutations in the Toll pathway rendered a fly impotent against infection, that he wrote up the first version of the paper and that Hoffmann’s scientific contribution to the discovery itself was largely limited to improving the paper’s style [7]. And the facts asserted by Lemaitre are not disputed. It is documented that Hoffmann never properly acknowledged Lemaitre’s contribution to the Toll discovery. Jeremy Garwood has researched the matter and alleges that Hoffmann also manipulated perceptions, just as Waksman had done half a century before, by writing numerous reviews, giving many lectures, making copious use of the royal “we” and by networking to raise his own profile at the expense of his junior collaborators [8]. Why worry about who receives Nobel Prizes? I think we should because the prizes act so powerfully to define what we value in science; the prizes create role models whom scientists try to emulate, they draw attention to the greatest discoveries and announce who is responsible for them. The choices of particular laureates often receive worldwide approbation but, whether they do or do not, they should be open to scrutiny. For in Nobel’s will his express intention was clear: “the most worthy shall receive the prize” [6].
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Current Biology
دوره 22 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2012