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Nature Medicine 10, 1146 (2004)
doi:10.1038/nm1104-1146b

Database draws attention to not-so-Nobel intentions

Peter Vermij1

  1. Amsterdam


Nobel Prize nominations run along national, gender lines


For the first time since 1995, the Karolinska Institute in Sweden has added a woman to the short list of female winners of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. A database of more than 4,300 nomination letters available on the institute's website in part explains the dominance of male winners in the field.