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Published online 17 December 2008 | Nature 456, 860-861 (2008) | doi:10.1038/456860a
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News 2008: Prizewinners of the year
Medals, cash and fame rained down on the heads of prominent scientists in 2008. Ashley Yeager rounds up some of them.
Robert Langer: Bringing home the medals
Chemical and biomedical engineer Robert Langer, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, racked up more major science prizes than any other researcher this year — the Millennium Technology Prize and the Max Planck Research Award, along with a share of the Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research. Total haul: about US$2 million.
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They are sucessful in science and did that by believing in themselves and also taking the untravelled path in science. History repeats itself now and then. We learn most from the history. I can say that as Scitory!!!