Look at this year's Nobel prizes.   The Physics Prize:  The Nobel committee lauded Yoichiro Nambu, now of the University of Chicago, and Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa of Japan for work that helped show why the universe is made up mostly of matter and not anti-matter via changes known as broken symmetries.  The Chemistry Prize: The Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2008 was awarded to Osamu Shimomura (b. 1928) of the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), at Woods Hole, Massachusetts and Boston University Medical School, Martin Chalfie (b. 1947) of Columbia University, New York, and Roger Tsien (b. 1952) of the University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, for the discovery (1962 by Shimomura) and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP. Important, of course, and congratulations to all three but I just knew it would be bio again!  A Japanese guy and Chinese guy are among the three who share the prize.  Just another dent in the old canard.   http://webhollis.com/albums/Funny-Fo...t_A_Cookie.jpg  University of Chicago?? Boston University Medical School? University of California-San Diego? Columbia University? I can see where they come to get their education.;)