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The Nobel Committee: 2 ideas worth knowing

2 ideas from The Nobel Committee, each explained in a minute and credited to the original work. Free on Savvy.

• She was demoted for years for chasing an idea that became the Covid vaccine

  Biochemist Katalin Karikó spent decades pursuing messenger RNA as a medical tool, losing grant funding and getting demoted along the way. Her work with Drew Weissman on modifying m…

  — The Nobel Committee (Karikó and Weissman), The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2023

• The 2003 Nobel Prize for inventing the MRI left out the man who patented it first

  Paul Lauterbur and Peter Mansfield won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for developing magnetic resonance imaging, but Raymond Damadian, who had filed the original 1974 pa…

  — The Nobel Committee; Raymond Damadian patent records, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2003

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