Could public support for research be cheapened, and made more productive, by following the eighteenth-century precedent of the British government's prize for a means of measuring longitude?
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Horrobin, D. Glittering prizes for research support. Nature 324, 221 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1038/324221a0
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