Thursday, 9 October 2008

Another Nobel Prize for visual intelligence!

When Al Gore was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize last year, robert Kosara at Eager Eyes called it "A Nobel Prize for Charts". Now the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie and Roger Tsien, for green fluorescent protein (GFP). I think that counts as another prize for graphical display of information:

1 comment:

Robert Kosara said...

Exactly! Next will be the Nobel Literature Prize for Stephen Few! ;)