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- From: rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari)
- Subject: Re: How many Nobel Prizes has IBM won?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.161155.28517@wam.umd.edu>
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- References: <1993Jan5.044937.15400@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <1993Jan5.020754.2330@ccsvax.sfasu.edu>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 16:11:55 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan5.020754.2330@ccsvax.sfasu.edu> z_kupkams@ccsvax.sfasu.edu writes:
- >
- >In article <1993Jan5.044937.15400@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, rjones@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Ronald Jones) writes:
- >> There is a news item in acs.clari.nb.ibm about the importance of
- >> basic research to the future of America. It states that in the
- >> last 5 years IBM has won 2 Nobel Prizes. Does anyone know the
- >> total.
- >
- >I believe, IBM Won one for the Scanning Tunneling Microscope.
- >Was it in Medicine???
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- Not sure why that would be for medicine. Do they offer a
- nobel in chemistry?
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- >> BTW, how many has Microsoft won ;-) (Just to put things into
- >> their proper perspective!)
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- >I didn't think there was a Nobel Prize for Marketing? :)
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- I'd like to see *any* example of a nobel prize for SW.
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- In any case, isn't research wonderful? I suppose that's
- why IBM is cutting it's research budger by $1 billion
- over the next 12 months.
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