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Nobel Prizes for Science missed by Romania

Summary/Abstract: Romania has missed three Nobel Prizes for Science, two in Physiology or Medicine and one in Chemistry. Victor BABEȘ was excluded from the 1901 Nobel Prize awarded to Emil von BEHRING for the discovery of passive immunization and Nicolae PAULESCU was excluded from the 1923 Nobel Prize awarded to Frederick Grant BANTING and John James Rickard MacLEOD for the discovery of insulin. Gheorghe BENGA was excluded from the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to Peter AGRE for the discovery of the first water channel protein, later called aquaporin 1. In all three cases the mistakes of The Nobel Committees appear to be due to the lack of citation by the Laureates of the previous work of the excluded scientists, although these scientists have published “landmark” papers in well known international journals, several years before the papers of the Laureates. These three cases of Romanian scientists (Victor BABEȘ, Nicolae PAULESCU, Gheorghe BENGA) excluded from the Nobel Prize in sciences are discussed. The new field of biological sciences called aquaporinology by Gheorghe BENGA is also briefly presented.

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