I haven't read their work so accept I might be missing a lot, but these optics are not great. As I understand this: three men (two white English, one Turkish) win the Nobel Prize for Economics for proving that colonies are poorer if colonial powers steal Indigenous wealth.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/14/three-us-based-professors-win-nobel-prize-in-economics-daron-acemoglu-simon-johnson-james-robinson-

#nobelPrize

Trio of professors win Nobel economics prize for work on post-colonial wealth

British-born Simon Johnson and James A Robinson and Turkish-American Daron Acemoğlu share £810,000 prize

^{Kalyeena Makortoff (The Guardian)}

Shocking story about mRNA pioneer/Nobel winner Katalin Karikó, whose early advisor at Temple tried to have her deported & derailed her career because she dared to look for a better-paying job.

Later, UPenn demoted her, then forced her out, because her research wasn't bringing in enough funding. #NobelPrize #science [HT Paul Novosad]

The 2023 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective #mRNA #vaccines against COVID-19.

Despite all the known issues with these (& other) prizes, this one makes me particularly happy: it is extremely well deserved and (another) clear example of what basic science can do for humanity.