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By Marc Abrahams. 240 pp., illustrated. New York, Dutton, 2003. $18.95. ISBN 0-525-94753-1.

Apart from the money, is the Nobel Prize worthwhile? Dr. Raymond Damadian, who claims to have discovered magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), seems to think so, because he went public with an expensive campaign of full-page advertisements in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and other dailies to protest his exclusion from the 2003 ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden, during which two other men received the prize for their work on MRI. We'll have to wait for the full story because the Nobel Committee seals its deliberations for 50 years.

The secretive Swedish committee is the very opposite of the Ig . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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