Which leads to a second reaction one might have to the absence of American poets from the Nobel list: Is it perhaps justified?
(The dead winners, as Macy Halford notes, were Erik Axel Karlfeldt, for literature in 1931, and Dag Hammarskjöld for peace in 1961. Is it a coincidence that they were both Swedes?) The floor is open for posthumous suggestions, though settling the fights that would surround an all-time, dead-or-alive Nobel list might merit a Peace Prize all its own.
She wears a tight white lab coat, and when a mouse gets loose she screams and hikes up her smock, revealing two long, tanned legs and the black bikini underwear she got as a gift from her peers for making the Nobel short list.
The front page also notes: "Trump on Nobel short list".
The three Americans' names did not appear on any of the major Nobel prediction lists, and when Rosbash was awakened by the phone call from Sweden, early this morning, he reportedly said, "You've got to be kidding".
The Copenhagen Consensus Center, involving a blue-ribbon panel of economists, including five Nobel Laureates, listed global warming as #30, and last, of 30 world priorities.
This year's favorite at 4/1 (as of Sunday evening): Amos Oz, the Israeli author and political activist, who has been on Nobel speculators' short-lists for many years.
Uganda's military intelligence chief, Nobel Moyambo, also listed as a member of a criminal network, responded to the report, saying, "They should tell me which cartel I belong to, because I know they cannot prove their allegations".
A total of 98 Britons are now on the list of Nobel prize winners, a tally second only to the US, which has had 258 Nobel laureates to date.
We will soon find out who joins the list of Nobel luminaries, from Ernest Rutherford and Marie Curie to Linus Pauling and Fred Sanger.
"This was such an obvious Nobel, on everybody's list of discoveries that would receive the prize soon," said Dr. Thomas Cech, an expert on RNA and president of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
