Nature's anti-portfolio: Fermi, Krebs and the first MRI paper were all rejected
luismbat · x · 2026-10-22
A tweet lists landmark papers rejected by Nature: Fermi's theory of beta decay in 1933 (dismissed as "too remote from reality"), Krebs' citric acid cycle in 1937 (Nobel Prize 1953), and Lauterbur's first MRI paper in 1973 (Nobel Prize 2003). The poster calls it "Nature's anti-portfolio."
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