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The Intelligence - Episode 5
In 19 forty albert einstein backed ottostern, who had already been nominated 60 times by 35 people. And similarly, wolfgam polly, who was a major quantum theorist at the time his exclusin principleas a cotendant of quata mechanics, sent a telegram to the nobel committee in 19 forty five and that's when polly finally gets his prize. So dolly, can we speculate about why nominations from former winners, einstein or anybody else, seem to have had so much sway? It could be that lauriates just have an unusually good eye for qualified candidates. Or there is anecdotal evidence that, at least in some cases, past winners
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