With just two prizes still to be announced, the Peace Prize and the Economy Prize, all eyes are on the Norwegian Nobel Committee to see if a woman will be among this year’s winners.
. The committee, they said, tended to reward recipients after a period of time.
He added that if you looked at the general trajectory of Nobel prize winners, the number of women scientists was growing as were those given to men from Japan and China. Asked why there were so few Black Nobel Prize winners for literature, Gurnah told Reuters the world was changing. "There has been an under-representation of women historically in science, so the further back in time you look, the fewer female candidates there are," he said."I'm not at liberty to give you any details on this, but in general terms, I can say that scientific competence is the deciding factor," he said.
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