This Rice University professor has helped pick more than a dozen Nobel Prize winners
Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede spent years on the Nobel Committee for Chemistry. She left the role for a job at Rice — but still knew who this year’s winner was.
Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede spent years on the Nobel Committee for Chemistry. She left the role for a job at Rice — but still knew who this year’s winner was.
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