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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They just announced Nobel winner in Chemistry. 1 of the 3 winners is at a US university, and he is... an immigrant from Jordan.[/quote]

He is at Berkeley. [/quote]
He did his most important work at ASU, Michigan and UCLA before moving to Berkeley.[/quote]

What does “most important work” mean? He only did trivial amount of work at UCB? [/quote]
He got the job at Berkeley because he'd already done really impressive work.  That groundbreaking work was done at those other institutions.  That's the work that won him the Prize.

[b]It wasn't like UCB took a bet on a young researcher and nurtured his research.[/b]  They used their budget and reputation to hire someone already super impressive.

If you're choosing a research institution for your PhD, you want to think about where you can do the most interesting work.  It's not always the big shiny institution where the researcher is located when they win accolades, but in the labs at less prestigious institutions that are generating the work that will be awarded prizes in 10-30 years.  [/quote]
+1, Princeton and Berkeley are two schools where this is very rare. They buy talent.[/quote]

Isn’t Berkeley’s “alumni” Nobel count at 37 at this point. How did they “buy” that talent?[/quote]
We just explained it. Professors work that wasn’t done at Berkeley who are well liked in the field get offers at Berkeley -&gt; prizes. You don’t get a Nobel right after your research is published.[/quote]

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