The scientists behind Dolly, the world’s first cloned sheep, have been announced as the winners of the Shaw Prize, the million-dollar award known as the Nobel Prize of the east.

Work worthy of a prize, to be sure. But, I find the name of the Shaw Prize a little confusing. Aren’t ’scientists of the East’ already eligible for the Nobel prize? Or is it just that its awarded from the east?

via the Australian Broadcasting Company 

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