Science’s greatest discoverers: a shift towards greater interdisciplinarity, top universities and older age
Abstract What are the unique features and characteristics of the scientists who have made the greatest discoveries in science? To address this question, we assess all major scientific discoverers, defined as all nobel-prize and major non-nobel-prize discoverers, and their demographic, institutional...
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Language: | English |
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Springer Nature
2024-02-01
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Series: | Humanities & Social Sciences Communications |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-02781-4 |