Another U.S. sweep of the Nobel Prizes in the sciences
When Dynamite Inventor Alfred Nobel created his great prizes at the turn of the century, he stipulated that they be given for notable achievement in the previous year. The Swedish jurors have long since abandoned that encumbering rule because it has led to some embarrassing decisions, such as a 1926 award for discovery of a "cancer causing" parasite. No one, however, could accuse the Swedes of haste or incaution last week when they completed this year's science awards, worth $192,000 apiece.
The 1983 Nobel...
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