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Exuberant unpredictability: sine qua non for priceless and prizeworthy biomedical research

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Lasker Awards have been given for the past 63 years and Nobel Prizes for the past 107 years. But both of these prizes are relative newcomers to the prize-giving scene. The mother of all prizes—scientific and nonscientific—is the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society of London. This prize was first given in 1824, and it has been given continuously for the past 184 years. Einstein won it in 1926 and, in more recent times, three heroes of modern astronomy have received it: Hubble, Hoyle and Hawking.

Charles Babbage, the first prize recipient

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Figure 1: Laterne an Betrunkene (Street Lamp for Drunks).
Figure 2: Preis Bilder (Prize Paintings).

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Goldstein, J. Exuberant unpredictability: sine qua non for priceless and prizeworthy biomedical research. Nat Med 14, 1029–1032 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm1008-1029

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