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Science Talk

No, No Nobel: How to Lose the Prize

Science Talk

Scientific American

Science

4.2644 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Physicist Brian Keating talks about his book Losing the Nobel Prize: A Story of Cosmology, Ambition, and the Perils of Science’s Highest Honor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Ah, Benny's parents, thanks for coming.

0:02.3

Hiya.

0:02.9

So, Benny has really blossomed this term.

0:05.6

You're telling me, he outgrew his bike. We sold it, on eBay.

0:09.6

Oh, that's not quite what I meant.

0:11.1

It's free to sell on there?

0:12.3

Free to sell?

0:13.5

Easy too. Sold Benny's bike, your guitar, my jacket.

0:16.8

You sold my guitar?

0:19.9

Shall we talk about Benny?

0:22.1

When it's this easy to sell for free, you can't help but say when it's eBay.

0:26.7

Things people love. T's and Cs apply, excludes vehicles.

0:30.2

Science talk will begin right after this brief message.

0:33.9

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0:38.0

We bring together cutting-edge science and the most creative minds in the industry to think differently about how diseases can be not just treated, but predicted, preempted, and stopped in their tracks.

0:51.3

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It's about how we work and who we work with. Because at Jansen, we're creating a future where disease

1:03.8

is a thing of the past. This is Scientific American Science Talk posted on May 19th, 2020.

1:12.9

I'm Steve Murski.

1:14.5

On this episode, the prestige, the honor, the dominance, the kind of perspective that one gets when they do become elected to this, you know, ultimate kind of pantheon of scientific heroism, I think that has a huge impact on science and the public's perception

1:28.6

of science. That's Brian Keating. He's a physics professor at the Center for Astrophysics and

1:33.7

Space Sciences of the University of California, San Diego. And he's the author of the book

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