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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/19526| Title: | THINK BIG : can Malta produce a Nobel laureate? |
| Authors: | Baldacchino, Godfrey |
| Keywords: | Science -- Malta Nobel Prize winners |
| Issue Date: | 2017-03 |
| Publisher: | University of Malta |
| Citation: | Baldacchino, G. (2017). THINK BIG : can Malta produce a Nobel laureate? THINK Magazine, 19, 12. |
| Abstract: | Iceland (population: 320,000) is proud of writer Halldor Laxness; the even smaller Faroe Islands (pop: 50,000) celebrates its physician and scientist Niels Ryberg Finsen. The combined population of these countries is smaller than Malta’s, yet they have each managed to secure Nobel Laureates: Laxness in Literature in 1955; Finsen in Medicine in 1903. Small size may be a handicap, but—as the Iceland and Faroe examples attest —it is not an insurmountable obstacle. Small size should not prove to be a cheap excuse. So the question is: can Malta produce a Nobel Laureate? |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/19526 |
| Appears in Collections: | Scholarly Works - FacArtSoc Think Magazine, Issue 19 Think Magazine, Issue 19 |
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