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From: werner@aecom.YU.EDU (Craig Werner)
Newsgroups: sci.physics,sci.research,sci.bio
Subject: Re: Nobel Prizes
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Date: 30 Oct 88 06:55:24 GMT
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In article <37721@philabs.Philips.Com>, dpb@hen3ry.Philips.Com (Paul Benjamin) writes:
> In article <7360@ut-emx.UUCP> ethan@ut-emx.UUCP (Ethan Tecumseh Vishniac) writes:
> >Do you really think that someone should get the Nobel prize for putting
> >together someone else's theoretical work with someone else's experiment?
> 
> > Ethan Vishniac, Dept of Astronomy, Univ. of Texas

	Consider this tidbit:

	Southerland wrote a paper on a substance X that was produced in
cells after appropriate stimulation.  A anonymous reviewer at the
Journal of Biological Chemistry suggested that X might be cyclic AMP
and suggested a few followup experiments to check it.  Southerland
did those experiments, included it into the discussion, naming cAMP as
the second messenger.  Southerland won the Nobel Prize.  To this day,
the identity of the reviewer is unknown.
-- 
	        Craig Werner   (future MD/PhD, 4 years down, 3 to go)
	     werner@aecom.YU.EDU -- Albert Einstein College of Medicine
              (1935-14E Eastchester Rd., Bronx NY 10461, 212-931-2517)
                         "I wouldn't have invited me either."