Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman
i wouldn't say she was ignored. this was an important but incremental research.<p>people always assume that landmark discoveries are immediately obvious but really it only appears so after the accumulation of numerous research built on top of it.<p>thomas kuhn wrote that knowledge builds up to a tipping point where the collective intelligence begins a paradigm shift and realize that "oh yea... that was a major discovery"