#Cellosaurus_authors_trivia

#Cellosaurus_authors_trivia 1: 57 authors won a Nobel prize, 33 Breakthrough, 136 Gairdner, 21 Japan, 48 Jeantet, 82 Lasker & 47 WarrenAlpert. That adds up to 424 prizes but only 253 distinct individuals as 3 got 5 prizes, 9:4, 33:3 & 66:2. Perfectly illustrating the adage "Winning begets winning"

We are processing the Cellosaurus reference records to replace the authors 1st names initials by their full name. With ~104000 different authors cited in ~29000 publications it is a challenge as in the 1950-80s full names were not often used. We will post a thread of #Cellosaurus_authors_trivia