首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
考研
The US $3-million Fundamental Physics Prize is indeed an interesting experiment, as Alexander Polyakov said when he accepted thi
The US $3-million Fundamental Physics Prize is indeed an interesting experiment, as Alexander Polyakov said when he accepted thi
admin
2021-01-06
71
问题
The US $3-million Fundamental Physics Prize is indeed an interesting experiment, as Alexander Polyakov said when he accepted this year’s award in March. And it is far from the only one of its type. As a News Feature article in Nature discusses, a string of lucrative awards for researchers have joined the Nobel Prizes in recent years. Many, like the Fundamental Physics Prize, are funded from the telephone-number-sized bank accounts of Internet entrepreneurs. These benefactors have succeeded in their chosen fields, they say, and they want to use their wealth to draw attention to those who have succeeded in science.
What’s not to like? Quite a lot, according to a handful of scientists quoted in the News Feature. You cannot buy class, as the old saying goes, and these upstart entrepreneurs cannot buy their prizes the prestige of the Nobels. The new awards are an exercise in self-promotion for those behind them, say scientists. They could distort the achievement-based system of peer-review-led research. They could cement the status quo of peer-reviewed research. They do not fund peer-reviewed research. They perpetuate the myth of the lone genius.
The goals of the prize-givers seem as scattered as the criticism. Some want to shock, others to draw people into science, or to better reward those who have made their careers in research.
As Nature has pointed out before, there are some legitimate concerns about how science prizes—both new and old—are distributed. The Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, launched this year, takes an unrepresentative view of what the life sciences include. But the Nobel Foundation’s limit of three recipients per prize, each of whom must still be living, has long been outgrown by the collaborative nature of modern research—as will be demonstrated by the inevitable row over who is ignored when it comes to acknowledging the discovery of the Higgs boson. The Nobels were, of course, themselves set up by a very rich individual who had decided what he wanted to do with his own money. Time, rather than intention, has given them legitimacy.
As much as some scientists may complain about the new awards, two things seem clear. First, most researchers would accept such a prize if they were offered one. Second, it is surely a good thing that the money and attention come to science rather than go elsewhere. It is fair to criticize and question the mechanism—that is the culture of research, after all—but it is the prize-givers’ money to do with as they please. It is wise to take such gifts with gratitude and grace.
The discovery of the Higgs boson is a typical case which involves______.
选项
A、controversies over the recipients’ status
B、the joint effort of modem researchers
C、legitimate concerns over the new prizes
D、the demonstration of research findings
答案
B
解析
细节题。由题干中的The discovery of the Higgs boson定位到第四段第三句。作者认为,诺贝尔奖仅能颁发给三位在世的研究人员的规定已经不能适应现代科学研究的特点了,因为现代研究大多是共同合作的(collaborative),接着,作者以希格斯玻色子的发现为例,说明在认定其发现者授予诺贝尔奖时,人们有很多争议,也就是说,绝不止三位研究人员参与研究,因此,这一例证充分说明了现代科学合作完成的特点,[B]为答案。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/9V1Z777K
0
考研英语一
相关试题推荐
Everyhumanbeinghasuniquearrangementofskinonhisfingersandthisarrangementisunchangeable.Scientistsandexpertshav
Everyhumanbeinghasuniquearrangementofskinonhisfingersandthisarrangementisunchangeable.Scientistsandexpertshav
Theideathatpeoplemightbechosenorrejectedforjobsonthebasisoftheirgenesdisturbsmany.Such【C1】______mayhowever,
Valentine’sDaymaycomefromtheancientRomanfeastofLupercalia.【C1】______thefiercewolvesroamednearby,theoldRomans
Valentine’sDaymaycomefromtheancientRomanfeastofLupercalia.【C1】______thefiercewolvesroamednearby,theoldRomans
Valentine’sDaymaycomefromtheancientRomanfeastofLupercalia.【C1】______thefiercewolvesroamednearby,theoldRomans
Valentine’sDaymaycomefromtheancientRomanfeastofLupercalia.【C1】______thefiercewolvesroamednearby,theoldRomans
Valentine’sDaymaycomefromtheancientRomanfeastofLupercalia.【C1】______thefiercewolvesroamednearby,theoldRomans
Adealisadeal—except,apparently,whenEntergyisinvolved.Thecompany,amajorenergysupplierinNewEngland,provokedjus
In1924America’sNationalResearchCouncilsenttwoengineerstosuperviseaseriesofexperimentsatatelephone-partsfactory
随机试题
随着技术的进步和客户需求的进一步成熟的推动,当前主流市场的SSLVPN和几年前面市的相比已经发生很大的变化,主要表现在以下哪些方面
SecretsforaHappierYouSomepeoplearenaturallyblessedwithacheerfulcharacter.Theyspreadwarmthandsunshinewhere
甲状腺髓样癌的病理特点是
A.肿瘤较大,内为均质低回声,可有囊性变,CDFI:点状血流信号B.肿瘤较大,内回声不均,强弱不等,CDFI:丰富血流信号C.多单发,仅10%多发或双侧病变,瘤体小,1cm左右D.多发,仅10%单发或单侧病变,瘤体小,1cm左右E.肾上腺区三角形边
女,32岁,刺激性咳嗽,干咳,偶有少量黏稠痰,受寒冷刺激加重,伴气促,每天夜间、清晨均有剧咳而影响睡眠,用过青霉素、头孢菌素和多种祛痰止咳剂,疗效不满意。查体:双肺散在干性罗音,心脏正常。胸片示:心肺无异常,血白细胞12×10/L。
下列有关终身寿险和定期寿险的论述不正确的是( )。
金融期货交易的是合约。下列( )不属于交易所统一规定的范畴。
单位要组织工作成果宣传展示。需要邀请上级领导和媒体参加,领导让你负责组织此次活动。你会做哪些准备工作?
StevelandMorrisisahouseholdnameinAmerica.AskStevelandMorrisandhe’lltellyouthatblindnessisnotnecessarilydisab
Specializationcanbeseenasaresponsetotheproblemofanincreasingaccumulationofscientificknowledge.Bysplittingupt
最新回复
(
0
)