Nobel Prize: We will not have gender or ethnicity quotas - top scientist

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First, demarcation disputes between supervisor and student are always difficult, probably impossible to resolve. Secondly, it is the supervisor who has the final responsibility for the success or failure of the project. We hear of cases where a supervisor blames his student for a failure, but we know that it is largely the fault of the supervisor. It seems only fair to me that he should benefit from the successes, too. Thirdly, I believe it would demean Nobel Prizes if they were awarded to research students, except in very exceptional cases, and I do not believe this is one of them. Finally, I am not myself upset about it – after all, I am in good company, am I not![15]

You know, it's interesting she brings up that PIs routinely blame students for things going wrong despite most people knowing it's the PI's responsibility most of the time. Obviously not every graduate student or post-doc is a poor, innocent victim but I have met some insanely toxic scientists who apparently were incapable of taking blame, but boy did they love taking the credit. But hey, that's certainly common in any industry also considered to be an intellectual pursuit.

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