Research awards - Topics

A lifetime achievement medal changes a career less than the first big award did An award on a CV can outweigh a grant in a hiring committee's first pass Medals from learned societies carry weight that citation counts cannot reproduce Why so few awards go to teams even when the work needed twenty laboratories Refusing an award for political reasons follows a researcher for the rest of a career Fields with one big prize get more attention than fields with dozens of small ones Perelman proved the Poincare conjecture and then declined the prize Prize committees wait until a discovery is safely established and by then the field has moved on Early career awards tend to go to people who already hold the largest grants Awards turn a distribution of credit into a ranking of people Student prizes shape which subfield a graduate programme becomes known for Reviewer credit logged in ORCID still does not count toward promotion Prize money is a fraction of the publicity and the publicity is the real award Who nominates whom: the invisible network behind national academy elections The Nobel rule of three laureates and the collaborators it writes out The Nobel Prize arrives decades after the work and rewards whoever is still alive to receive it Millennium Prize problems: one solved and six still unclaimed