OPINION: Nobel laureates are "tip of iceberg" as research cannot be done alone

The Nobel Prize, except for the peace prize, is awarded to individuals. Winning scientists draw public attention as people of exceptional intellect, but scientific research is never carried out by one scientist alone: science is a vast system, and Nobel laureates are only the tip of the iceberg.Consider the two scientists who won the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine -- Roger Guillemin of the Salk Institute in California and Andrew Schally of the Veterans Administration Hospital, New Orleans. Though once working together, they parted ways and engaged in fierce competition over the …READ FULL ARTICLE