"Europe needs to double its Nobels": the anxiety behind the prize count
MarvinTBaumann · x · 2026-09-29
Reacting to a discussion of the Nobel Prizes, the author quips that "Europe needs to double its Nobels" — a pointed reflection of European anxiety over basic-research output, against the backdrop of recent Nobels increasingly going to AI-related work.
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