THE NOBEL DISEASE: WHEN INTELLIGENCE FAILS TO PROTECT AGAINST IRRATIONALITY.

The article focus on Nobelists who clung to one or more weird idea with considerable conviction. Topic include Linus Pauling (1901-1994) received the 1954 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for research on the chemical bond (he also won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1962); William Shockley (1910-1989), along with John Bardeen and Walter Brattain, received the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing the transistor.