I'm a total geek for micro biology and I just read a new article today about the recent Nodel Prize winners and a fourth guy that they based their research off of.
The background information for the research is that there is a new biological protein that has been found to illuminate certain biological processes, meaning that now researches can see a lot more of what happens in cells than they use to be able to.
The part that is saddening in the article is that the main guy, Douglas Prasher, who found this protein ten years ago is now working for $10 an hour on a car lot. He even predicted the results that got the other three guys their Nobel prize and the 1.4 million dollars that comes with it. Prasher couldn't continue his work because of a lack of funding, so he gave his results and cultures to two other scientists, who then researched his claims and took them to the scientific community and published them. A Nobel prize can only be shared 3 ways so there is no chance that the forth and most important guy can get recognition. Even though Prasher did most of the work, he now works as a shuttle driver in Huntsville.
Poor guy...
You can read the article at Nobel Snub
~James
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