Optogenetics pioneers Ed Boyden and Feng Zhang missed the Nobel Prize
iScienceLuvr · x · 2026-10-06
The author notes the irony of having met Ed Boyden and Feng Zhang, the two pioneers and first authors of the original optogenetics paper, who did not receive the Nobel Prize — highlighting the perennial controversy over Nobel attribution.
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