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Science 27 August 1999:
Vol. 285. no. 5432, p. 1346
DOI: 10.1126/science.285.5432.1346
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CHEMISTRY:
Brazil Lobbies for First Nobel

Cassio Leite Vieira

RIO DE JANEIRO--Brazil's science community has begun an unusually visible campaign to promote the Nobel Prize candidacy of Otto Richard Gottlieb, a revered figure in that country, for his contributions to the study of biodiversity and plant chemistry. But the effort is a long shot. In addition to the difficulty of touting someone from the developing world working in a relatively obscure field, Gottlieb's advocates are up against the secretive world of the Nobel selection process.

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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)