10/08/2016
8 Rejected Papers That Won the Nobel Prize >>>
1. Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1997) awarded to Paul Boyer for: Identification of the mechanism for the synthesis of adenosine triphosphate (ATP)
2. Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1991) awarded to Richard Ernst for: The development of high resolution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy
3. Nobel Prize in Physics (1969) awarded to Murray Gell-Mann for: "for his contributions and discoveries concerning the classification of elementary particles and their interactions"
4. Nobel Prize in Medicine (1953) awarded to Hans Krebs for: The discovery of the citric acid cycle (aka the Krebs cycle)
5. Nobel Prize in Physics (2000) awarded to Herbert Kroemer for: "Developing semiconductor heterostructures used in high-speed and opto-electronics"
6. Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1986) awarded to John Polanyi for: elucidating the dynamics of chemical elementary processes.
7. Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1993) awarded to Kary Mullis for: invention of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method
8. Nobel Prize in Medicine (1977) awarded to Rosalind Yalow for: invention of the radioimmunoassay (RIA).
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Nobel prize winning ideas are not always accepted by the community. By definition, they are paradigm shifting, _REVOLUTIONARY_. Accordingly, many breakthroughs that are in our textbooks today were initially rejected, if not ridiculed, by the scienti