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Experience counts for Nobel laureates

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Study of prizewinning scientists suggests greatest discoveries are now made by middle-aged researchers, not young ones.

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Corbyn, Z. Experience counts for Nobel laureates. Nature (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2011.632

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