Why there is no Nobel prize winner from Singapore

[temasekreview]

The recent award of Nobel prize to a Hong Kong physics professor has invited some kiasu Singaporeans (who always have displayed an idiosyncratic attitude in not wanting to lose out to Hong Kong) to sit back and ask why has not Singapore created any Nobel Laureates so far.



Lack of No.1 global human achievements

Singapore also has not produced any Booker prize winners which is the highest literary award in the world. Despite engineering being a core area of Singapore, we have not produced any engineering marvel at the world level.

We also have not produced any poet, artist, filmmaker, dancer, song writer or singer that the world craves for. Singapore has yet to produce philosophers or intellectuals that the world recognises and cherishes.

Our 14% Muslim population has not won any global awards from Organization of Islamic Countries, which gives out some of the highest awards to the highest achieving Muslims in the world. What Singaporeans need to ask is why “No.1” Singapore has not made any No.1 global human achievements in the last 50 years?

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[TeeKee]

i dun think he'll win a nobel prize if he stayed in HK...

Only in mostly Jesus countries you can find many nobel prize winners...

All ideas come from God, and he touches you and gives you eurekas, if you arg gah leow with Him...

the secrets of their success....read this..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index

 

[SamuelStalin]

The recent award of Nobel prize to a Hong Kong physics professor has invited some kiasu Singaporeans (who always have displayed an idiosyncratic attitude in not wanting to lose out to Hong Kong) to sit back and ask why has not Singapore created any Nobel Laureates so far.



Lack of No.1 global human achievements

Singapore also has not produced any Booker prize winners which is the highest literary award in the world. Despite engineering being a core area of Singapore, we have not produced any engineering marvel at the world level.

We also have not produced any poet, artist, filmmaker, dancer, song writer or singer that the world craves for. Singapore has yet to produce philosophers or intellectuals that the world recognises and cherishes.

Our 14% Muslim population has not won any global awards from Organization of Islamic Countries, which gives out some of the highest awards to the highest achieving Muslims in the world. What Singaporeans need to ask is why “No.1” Singapore has not made any No.1 global human achievements in the last 50 years?

Read rest of article here:

http://www.temasekreview.com/2009/1...et-no-1-in-highest-global-human-achievements/

No engineering marvel?? No no no the Singapore Flyer is the biggest wheel in the world (even bigger than Japan's) and it is made by humans...

 

[SamuelStalin]

Does Hong Kong have any Nobel laureates? No right? Not even for best egg tart maker and best taxi driver?

They contribute a hell lot to their society and to foreigners you know.

 

[bluewolf]

Does Hong Kong have any Nobel laureates? No right? Not even for best egg tart maker and best taxi driver?

Yes, they do. One of this year's winner for the Physics Nobel is Charles Kao who grew up in HK and currently resides in HK holding HK citizenship. He was the vice-chancellor of CUHK. So there you go.

 

[TeeKee]

Yes, they do. One of this year's winner for the Physics Nobel is Charles Kao who grew up in HK and currently resides in HK holding HK citizenship. He was the vice-chancellor of CUHK. So there you go.

another one is coming, you wait and see, with multiple post doctorates...yeah he's a faithful christian too...

 

[Ash007]

i dun think he'll win a nobel prize if he stayed in HK...

Only in mostly Jesus countries you can find many nobel prize winners...

All ideas come from God, and he touches you and gives you eurekas, if you arg gah leow with Him...

the secrets of their success....read this..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index

Sigh here you go again. You should read up on Linus Pauling. Multi Nobel price Laureate .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Pauling

Religious stance Raised Lutheran, Unitarian Universalist, Atheist as an adult

By your reasoning, being and raised as a Christian and later becoming an Atheist could land you multiple Nobel prizes.
If you are smart enough you don't have to preach about your religion. If you believe all things comes from god, and you want to have faith/trust/embrace, the person in the sky in whatever ways you can. Not just through Jesus. Jesus is just one if many ways you can get to know god. Mosses, Mohamed are the other prophets you should get to know as well. Since they all preach/teaches the same concept of god.

 

[TeeKee]

By your reasoning, being and raised as a Christian and later becoming an Atheist could land you multiple Nobel prizes.
If you are smart enough you don't have to preach about your religion. If you believe all things comes from god, and you want to have faith/trust/embrace, the person in the sky in whatever ways you can. Not just through Jesus. Jesus is just one if many ways you can get to know god. Mosses, Mohamed are the other prophets you should get to know as well. Since they all preach/teaches the same concept of god.

why dun you consider that his former christian background help him tremendously?

come to think of it, do you think inventing a nuclear bomb is good for the society?

 

[drifter]

why dun you consider that his former christian background help him tremendously?

come to think of it, do you think inventing a nuclear bomb is good for the society?

gayboy , inventing your " invsible man " is not good for the society too . see how you believe that a virgin could give birth and a snake could convice a naked couple eat an apple . see how your religion makes you stupid . . you are one good living example .

 

[Ash007]

why dun you consider that his former christian background help him tremendously?

come to think of it, do you think inventing a nuclear bomb is good for the society?

And maybe not at all. If you had read the link, he was a pacifist and got a Nobel Peace price because of that.

Ava Helen Pauling, Linus's wife, was a pacifist and in time he came to share her views.[5] Pauling soon began to express his concerns with the effects of nuclear fallout and in 1962, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his campaign against above ground nuclear testing. His beliefs were not without controversy at the time and he was criticized by some for his actions.

The point I want to make is that whether you believe in Jesus or not does not make you a good or bad scientist. Learning the principle, behind a nuclear bomb and applying it for safe/clean power generation would benefit humanity more. Nowadays, with global warming, nuclear energy maybe a safe and clean alternative. These people, that are awarded Nobel awards, were given the honour because they have advanced humanity in certain ways. Whether they believe in Jesus or not is beside the point. I'll rather they don't, since I think believing someone up in the sky theory is a bit out of touch with scientific acknowledgement. I prefer them to be a humanist.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanism

 

[SamuelStalin]

Yes, they do. One of this year's winner for the Physics Nobel is Charles Kao who grew up in HK and currently resides in HK holding HK citizenship. He was the vice-chancellor of CUHK. So there you go.

Oh I see, just one. After so many decades since Nobel was established, and long after the British had left and the Chinese had resumed control of the territory. Very impressive.

 

[Black Swan]

Irena Sendler

There recently was a death of a 98 year-old lady named Irena.

During WWII, Irena, got permission to work in the WarsawGhetto, as a

Plumbing/Sewer specialist.

She had an ' ulterior motive ' ... She KNEW what the Nazi's plans were

for the Jews,

(being German.) Irena smuggled infants out in the bottom of the tool box

she carried

and she carried in the back of her truck a burlap sack, (for larger kids.)

She also had a

dog in the back that she trained to bark when the Nazi soldiers let her in

and out of the ghetto.

The soldiers of course wanted nothing to do with the dog and the barking

covered the

kids/infants noises. During her time of doing this, she managed to smuggle
out and

save 2500 kids/infants. She was caught, and the Nazi ' s broke both her

legs, arms

and beat her severely. Irena kept a record of the names of all the kids

she smuggled out

and kept them in a glass jar, buried under a tree in her back yard.
After
the war,

she tried to locate any parents that may have survived it and reunited the

family.

Most of course had been gassed. Those kids she helped got placed into

foster family

homes or adopted.



Last year Irena was up for the Nobel Peace Prize ... She was not selected.



* Al Gore won, for a slide show on Global Warming.

 

[kaipoh]

i dun think he'll win a nobel prize if he stayed in HK...

Only in mostly Jesus countries you can find many nobel prize winners...

All ideas come from God, and he touches you and gives you eurekas, if you arg gah leow with Him...

the secrets of their success....read this..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index

if he is in singapore he will be a bankrupt.

 

[myo539]

The recent award of Nobel prize to a Hong Kong physics professor has invited some kiasu Singaporeans (who always have displayed an idiosyncratic attitude in not wanting to lose out to Hong Kong) to sit back and ask why has not Singapore created any Nobel Laureates so far.
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Obviously you have very short memory - and your bullshittings about "lack of global human achievements" and "an idiosyncratic attitude".

A Singaporean was awarded the Nobel Prize just two years ago - albeit a joint one.

 

[eatshitndie]

Obviously you have very short memory - and your bullshittings about "lack of global human achievements" and "an idiosyncratic attitude".

A Singaporean was awarded the Nobel Prize just two years ago - albeit a joint one.

this has been debated ad nauseam in sg expat, and no one has come up with the proof.

the only "nobel" prize awarded to anything related to sg was anything but the real nobel prize:

"Singaporean scientist wins Asia’s Nobel Prize
A Singaporean scientist, Professor James Newton Boss, won the Gusi Peace Prize, or Asia’s version of Nobel Prize, with his invention of a material which can create hip replacements and substitute bones.

Asian 'Nobel' for Singaporean
A Singaporean scientist has bagged what is considered Asia's version of the Nobel Prize for coming up with a lighter, more flexible and durable material that may soon be used to create replacement hip joints.

Professor James Newton Boss, 60, who runs his own consultancy, is one of this year's 15 winners of the Gusi Peace Prize, given out yearly by a charitable foundation set up in the Philippines." (snip)

 

[Hitler_Bush]

To win Nobel you have to be a crook and to win Peace Prize you have to be a war criminal like me and Obama. You have to keep doing wars. :p

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/2009101...Ec2VjA3luX3RvcF9zdG9yeQRzbGsDdXNtaWxpdGFyeXNh


US military says Afghan force numbers no secret

by Dan De Luce Dan De Luce – 1 hr 33 mins ago

WASHINGTON (AFP) – The Pentagon said on Tuesday it had made no secret about the expanding US force in Afghanistan, despite a report suggesting troop numbers had been downplayed by the Obama administration.

The Defense Department had consistently said the number of US forces would reach 68,000 by the end of the year, a Pentagon spokesman said.

"Nothing's missing. Nothing's hidden," Colonel Dave Lapan told reporters.

His comments came after the Washington Post reported on Tuesday that Obama had approved the deployment of 13,000 troops beyond the 21,000 he announced publicly in March.

But at least half of those 13,000 troops were authorized by former president George W. Bush, including a brigade from the 10th Mountain Division and an aviation brigade from the 82nd Airborne Division, Lapan said.

"Technically, did they all flow into Afghanistan under Obama's watch? Yes, but they have been approved previously," he said.

Apart from the dispatch of 21,000 extra troops announced by Obama, the size of the force swelled with thousands of support troops backing up combat brigades as well as units approved by the previous administration, Lapan told reporters.

The US force in the NATO-led mission was at about 34,000 when Obama was sworn in on January 20, he said.

Troop numbers in the troubled war effort have become the focus of intense debate in Washington as Obama carries out a wide-ranging review of war strategy and weighs a request for reinforcements from the US and NATO commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal.

Troop buildup skeptics worry that the US military is already under strain and would be hard pressed to provide enough support troops or "enablers" if big reinforcements are planned.

The support troops -- which include explosive experts, engineers, medical teams and intelligence analysts -- are deemed vital for US military operations.

Defense officials often announce major deployments involving brigades of several thousand troops without specifying how many support troops are expected to be accompany them.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates had said previously he would be sending more support troops to Afghanistan even as Obama weighs the best war strategy going forward.

The Pentagon and the White House in the past have tended not to publicize or highlight support troop deployments.

When Bush announced a US troop "surge" in Iraq, he only referred to 20,000 combat forces and not the 8,000 support troops backing them up.

There are now more US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan than during the peak of the surge in Iraq in late 2007 and early 2008.

About 65,000 US forces are stationed in Afghanistan and about 124,000 in Iraq, according to the Pentagon.

At the height of the Iraq surge, 26,000 US troops were in Afghanistan and 160,000 in Iraq.

 

[bluewolf]

Obviously you have very short memory - and your bullshittings about "lack of global human achievements" and "an idiosyncratic attitude".

A Singaporean was awarded the Nobel Prize just two years ago - albeit a joint one.

Obviously, no Singaporean has ever won a Nobel Prize, else it would have been plastered all over Straits Times already.

However, you might be pleased to know that a Singaporean has ever won a Ig Nobel Prize. Our beloved former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew.... for Psychology in 1994.

 

[Stage 5]

this has been debated ad nauseam in sg expat, and no one has come up with the proof.

the only "nobel" prize awarded to anything related to sg was anything but the real nobel prize:

"Singaporean scientist wins Asia’s Nobel Prize
A Singaporean scientist, Professor James Newton Boss, won the Gusi Peace Prize, or Asia’s version of Nobel Prize, with his invention of a material which can create hip replacements and substitute bones.

Asian 'Nobel' for Singaporean
A Singaporean scientist has bagged what is considered Asia's version of the Nobel Prize for coming up with a lighter, more flexible and durable material that may soon be used to create replacement hip joints.

Professor James Newton Boss, 60, who runs his own consultancy, is one of this year's 15 winners of the Gusi Peace Prize, given out yearly by a charitable foundation set up in the Philippines." (snip)

Gusi Peace Prize? From Philippines some more.... so lame!

 

[TeeKee]

Obviously, no Singaporean has ever won a Nobel Prize, else it would have been plastered all over Straits Times already.

that will happen soon, even if any FTs who won nobel prize ever stepped into SGP before, or has any relationship with SGP, 144th will glady proclaimed and be our glory..!

 

[myo539]

this has been debated ad nauseam in sg expat, and no one has come up with the proof.

the only "nobel" prize awarded to anything related to sg was anything but the real nobel prize (snip)

Do you know how to google???