Attention, please -- how innovations and Nobel Prize winners make it

Wednesday, May 4, 2011 - 16:30 in Psychology & Sociology

"The rich-get-richer effect," is famous not only in sociology. It applies to the success of innovators as well. But if attention is paid only to people who are already at the top, how are scientific revolutions possible? A new publication investigating careers of Nobel Prize winners gives insight into this stunning phenomenon.

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