Is the Nobel Prize Truly Free from Bias?

[Andre]

...Honestly, the people who discovered the CMB radiation? ...

That was a tough one for me. Never heart about radiation there deep down in the Earth at the CMB*

Perhaps something with abrev..


*Core Mantle Boundary

 

[Monique]

It is managed by the Swedish - originally the Germans - a Nobel is deemed as the ultimate honor in science and medicine.

Are there any of you that believe that the Nobel prize is partisan simply due to the fact that the people who hand out the prize are of a single nationality?

Biased in what way?

As said earlier, there will always be controversies and people feeling left out. Sometimes a big mistake is made, for instance the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine did not acknowledge the contribution of plant biologists. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v443/n7114/full/443906a.html

I think the prize helps recognize great discoveries, but maybe they should change their reward system.

 

[Borek]

If their decisions were really wrong (and I don't mean occasional error, but systematic bias) just money will be IMHO not enough for the prize to be so highly regarded.