They are currently engaged in a patent dispute with the Broad Institute on the use of CRISPR on eukaryotic cells and so it was believed that they would not win the Nobel until the dispute was resolved.
Sometimes the Nobel makes a pointed statement. As for instance when Einstein got his in 1921, over a decade after his 1905 paper on relativity, for the photoelectric effect, and no mention of special relativity, since it had actually been discovered by Poincaré and Lorentz, and the Academy disapproved of Einstein claiming credit for it.
You forget to mention the Broad Institute is not a disinterested party, they stand to make a lot of money from patents, and thus have a strong incentive to inflate their own claims and minimize those of others.
Great and overdue. I was just telling my mother yesterday that it was a travesty the inventors of CRISPR hadn't been honored yet with the Medicine Nobel.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 was awarded jointly to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna "for the development of a method for genome editing.
IIRC both these individuals emphasized that their work wouldn't had been possible without many other things working. But then i guess that is how awards work i guess.
I guess being the first one, might have some merit, right? Mújica was who discover it in 1993. This how science and awards works now: the system corruption is pervasive. There is no potential explanation to exclude Mújica from such award, otherwise.
