SCIENCE HAS PARTLY OUTGROWN NOBEL VISION OF THE PRIZES

An inevitable consequence of the effort to maintain the Nobels as the premier prizes in science is that selection committees have been force d to deviate somewhat from Alfred Nobel's wishes-that achievements be recent and be performed by an individual, younger scientist, states B. I.B. Lindahl, an associate professor of theory of medical science at S tockholm's Karolinska Institute.