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Nature 455, 564 (25 September 2008) | doi:10.1038/455564a; Published online 24 September 2008

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The Brown Revolution

Norman Spinrad1

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No longer number two.

Your Majesty; members of the Swedish Academy; fellow Nobel laureates; ladies, gentlemen and others, including former sceptics and tormentors — while convention and politesse would have me falsely protest my unworthiness to receive these two Nobel prizes for the same so-called discovery, receiving the Nobels for biology and for peace at the same time is hardly conducive to false modesty. Nor, after what I have had to endure in ridicule to finally stand here before you, am I in a particularly polite mood.