Another Nobel Prize !!

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<p>Another Nobel Prize for University of Chicago.</p>

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<p>. . . . . who?</p>

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<p>If you’re talking about chemistry, well, neither of the two winners have any affiliation with UChicago except for the fact that they worked at a lab that UChicago helps manage.</p>

<p>The Nobel Prize in Economics will be announced in five days though.</p>

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<p>UChicago doesn’t “help manage” Argonne. It runs the place outright. </p>

<p>As for Fermilab, UChicago technically leads its management consortium; as a practical matter, it runs Fermilab as well.</p>

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<p>Dr. Robert Lefkowitz: Columbia (Undergraduate and Medical School) and Duke (Longtime Professor)</p>

<p>Dr. Brian Kobilka: University of Minnesota-Duluth (Undergraduate), Yale (Medical School), Wash U (Residency), Duke (Postdoc), and Stanford (Longtime Professor)</p>

<p>Where’s the University of Chicago connection?</p>

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<p>Kobilka used the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne to determine the structure of a human GPCR. </p>

<p>But really, who cares?</p>

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<p>No just curious, that’s pretty interesting.</p>

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<p>As far as I know, using an institution’s machinery does not constitute an affiliation.</p>

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<p>Actually, it’s another 2 Nobel prizes for Columbia University as both Alvin Roth (economics) and Robert Lefkowitz (chemistry) are CU alumni. Chicago had no Nobel alumni or former or present faculty/research staff this year. </p>

<p>Grand totals:</p>

<p>Columbia University : 98 </p>

<p>University of Chicago: 85</p>

<p>[Nobel</a> Prize - WikiCU, the Columbia University wiki encyclopedia](<a href=“http://www.wikicu.com/Nobel_Prize]Nobel”>Nobel Prize - WikiCU, the Columbia University wiki encyclopedia)</p>

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<p>Actually, UChicago has 87 and Columbia has 82. Cambridge is highest with 89 winners and 90 prizes.</p>

<p>[List</a> of Nobel laureates by university affiliation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_by_university_affiliation]List”>List of Nobel laureates by university affiliation - Wikipedia)</p>

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<p>There’s more to it than “using an institution’s machinery” as we’re not talking about a photocopier here. The APS is unique and the discovery would not have been made without it. To the extent these metrics mean anything, they suggest that a given institution has the facilities and the community to support research of the very highest caliber.</p>

<p>But, again, whatever.</p>