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Ups and downs for Nobel Bourse - The Scientist - Magazine of the Life Sciences

Ups and downs for Nobel Bourse - The Scientist - Magazine of the Life Sciences Champagne corks might have been popping last night in New York and Seattle, home base for the winners of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, but there were no celebrations for the German team who run the Nobel Prize Bourse, an Internet-based virtual stock market designed to predict prize winners. Around midday on Monday (October 4) in Europe, Richard Axel, of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Columbia University in New York, and Linda B. Buck, of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, were named winners of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Medicine for their work on olfactory reception. But Axel and Buck had not been suggested as possible winners by any of the participants of the Nobel Prize Bourse, according to Christoph Kepper, an e-commerce doctoral student at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt, who manages technical aspects of the Bourse's Web site. "It's disappointing. We wanted to get it right," Kepper told The Scientist Monday afternoon. Still, there was good news to come. All three winners for the Physics prize—David J. Gross, H. David Politzer, and Frank Wilczek—were traded on the Nobel Prize market. On Tuesday afternoon Kepper told The Scientist: "It's http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Scientist The Scientist

Ups and downs for Nobel Bourse - The Scientist - Magazine of the Life Sciences

The ScientistOct 5, 2004

Ups and downs for Nobel Bourse - The Scientist - Magazine of the Life Sciences

The ScientistOct 5, 2004

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Champagne corks might have been popping last night in New York and Seattle, home base for the winners of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, but there were no celebrations for the German team who run the Nobel Prize Bourse, an Internet-based virtual stock market designed to predict prize winners. Around midday on Monday (October 4) in Europe, Richard Axel, of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Columbia University in New York, and Linda B. Buck, of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, were named winners of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Medicine for their work on olfactory reception. But Axel and Buck had not been suggested as possible winners by any of the participants of the Nobel Prize Bourse, according to Christoph Kepper, an e-commerce doctoral student at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt, who manages technical aspects of the Bourse's Web site. "It's disappointing. We wanted to get it right," Kepper told The Scientist Monday afternoon. Still, there was good news to come. All three winners for the Physics prize—David J. Gross, H. David Politzer, and Frank Wilczek—were traded on the Nobel Prize market. On Tuesday afternoon Kepper told The Scientist: "It's

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Champagne corks might have been popping last night in New York and Seattle, home base for the winners of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, but there were no celebrations for the German team who run the Nobel Prize Bourse, an Internet-based virtual stock market designed to predict prize winners. Around midday on Monday (October 4) in Europe, Richard Axel, of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Columbia University in New York, and Linda B. Buck, of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, were named winners of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Medicine for their work on olfactory reception. But Axel and Buck had not been suggested as possible winners by any of the participants of the Nobel Prize Bourse, according to Christoph Kepper, an e-commerce doctoral student at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt, who manages technical aspects of the Bourse's Web site. "It's disappointing. We wanted to get it right," Kepper told The Scientist Monday afternoon. Still, there was good news to come. All three winners for the Physics prize—David J. Gross, H. David Politzer, and Frank Wilczek—were traded on the Nobel Prize market. On Tuesday afternoon Kepper told The Scientist: "It's

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