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Before Nobels: Gifts to and from rich patrons were early science's currency

  • Written by Vera Keller, Associate Professor of History, University of Oregon
imageGalileo demonstrates a telescope to the doge of Venice. Giuseppe Bertini

While the Nobel Prizes are 115 years old, rewards for scientific achievement have been around much longer. As early as the 17th century, at the very origins of modern experimental science, promoters of science realized the need for some system of recognition and reward that...

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