The Nobel Prize debased

A growing number of Nobel Prizes are shared among several recipients. This has the effect of devaluating the prize, writes Eesti Päevaleht newspaper. "Are the world's scientists too well-off, or has the global economic crisis also debased the Nobel Prize? In this year three prizes each worth one million euros have been awarded, but no one has received the full amount. In medicine, half the sum goes to one person, while two others share the rest. The prize for physics has been similarly distributed, while at least in chemistry the prize has been split equally among three winners. Now we can hold our breaths as to whether the prize for literature will be awarded to three writers. It's already been given simultaneously to two authors, in 1974, but three would be a first. So on your marks, authors, the first three may well make it onto the rostrum."

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