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  4. From: mwmv@athena.cas.vanderbilt.edu (Michael Mogensen-Vermillion)
  5. Subject: Re: Why no Nobel Prize in Math?
  6. Message-ID: <1993Jan1.060048.14960@news.vanderbilt.edu>
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  9. Organization: Vanderbilt University Mathematics Department
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  11. Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 06:00:48 GMT
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  14. The version of the story that I heard several years ago in 
  15. an NPR interview with a Nobel biographer was that a woman 
  16. Nobel proposed to rejected him in favor of a mathematician 
  17. (whom the biographer did not name)  The biographer then went
  18. on to state that there was no historical evidence to support
  19. the story. 
  20.