For some time now, American science has been falling out of favor -- with talented young people who spurn it, press commentators who slam it and congressional budget makers who squeeze it. But if the Nobel Prizes are any indication, the U.S. research community still has plenty of past glory to celebrate. In a typical near-sweep, six of eight winners in science and economics are American citizens, and one of the others got the prize for work done in the U.S.
MEDICINE/PHYSIOLOGY British-born Richard Roberts, 50, now of New England Biolabs, and Phillip Sharp, 49, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,...
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