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Monday, October 14, 2013

The Nobel Prize and Greek Scientists

Countless awards are given out around the world every year. None of them, however, has prestige of a Nobel Prize. What is it that makes the greatest prize awarded to someone? That its recipients are selected based on merit with transparency. ??? ?????? ????? ? ??????? ?????????? ?????????? ???????? ??? ????????? ?? ?????????? ? the ultimate spiritual recognition exceeds anything financial. The 1963 Prize in Literature was awarded to a man with roots in Smyrna, George Seferis. Odysseas Elytis won in 1979. Two prizes for little Greece. The award this year just went to renowned short-story writer Alice Munro, who lives in a village in Ontario, Canada. But a Nobel Prize in science has never been awarded to a citizen of a small, undeveloped country.

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