Just five research fields scooped up more than half of the Nobel prizes for science awarded in recent decades, according to an analysis exposing an “honours inequality” that may be skewing research funding
Por: Adam Vaughan, New Scientist. Acesse aqui a matéria original.
The team found work on particle physics, cell biology, atomic physics, neuroscience and molecular chemistry accounted for 52.4 per cent of the Nobel prizes for chemistry, medicine and physics over the period. Only 36 of 114 scientific fields were honoured, leaving everything from respiratory diseases to planetary science excluded. Saiba mais...
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