Who's ambitious?
1. What's a Nobel Prize?
People often feel that the Nobel Prize winners must have been very ambitious people working hard like horses just trying to win Nobel Prizes. But that is a generally erroneous presumption. It's true that many people certainly would wish to become Nobel Prize winners. Unfortunately, winning them is not something like trying to be an Olympian for which specific training might greatly improve the odds. Often, it is because of people's interest in doing something that coincidentally wins them some prizes including the Nobel Prizes.
In my case for instance, I never heard of the term Nobel Prize until maybe second year college when I took biochemistry to learn the discoverers of the DNA molecule structure being linked to it, and it never came into my conscious awareness until I had struck upon a right discovery that memory is electromagnetic particles. At that point in time, actually a Soviet scientist through their advanced electronic broadcasting system in 1972 first came out with a comment about my discovery being good for a Nobel Prize.
2. Who's trying to win a Nobel Prize?
Even then, this new term did not interest me enough to redirect all or just a lot of my energy towards that goal. That s why since 1972, of the 470 volumes I have dictated or written, only about 55 volumes are on the nervous system. It's just a matter of interest and inspiration. When my ideas come, I record them. Even though while I concentrate on a particular topic, my ideas would be relevant to it; fundamentally there is no way I could tell my brain to give me great ideas on a particular subject at any given point in time. Because of this, it would be ludicrous to say that whenever I work, I in any way think of what to do just to win a Nobel Prize. In other words, I do not work just or at all to win Nobel Prizes.
3. How did I ever come into touch with this new entity?
At the same time, of course, as a person having a great deal of desire to benefit mankind with my inventions; in absence of any friendly English academic presses, I had to found my own little self-publishing one-man KC Cheng Press. Since this is a press on a shoestring, there was no money for marketing or official publishing. Since my own scientific judgment also agreed with some other 's opinion that my work would win a Nobel Prize, it became my responsibility to ensure that the Nobel Prize Committee has access to my work. Otherwise, not to say I won't get a Nobel Prize, it s for sure in consequence a case of boycott: when access could be provided, I refuse to do so.
This is why I gave copies of my relevant work to the Karolinska Library. Only since 2,000 when I detected the Nobel Prize Committee's actual broadcasts of " Nobel Prize" specifically directed to me did I begin to send my further volumes or video sets directly to that Committee.
4. Why talk of and "just talks of" Nobel Prizes?
Especially when no reputable English scientific publishers would publish my discoveries, the probabilities of plagiarism are great indeed. Further, without a publisher, naturally once more I had to market my own work. That's why you see these articles on the web. They mean to tell truth to the whole world. Moreover, it helps to discourage the malicious from tampering with the Nobel Prize system ( I called it the Nobel strategy. ). Unlike the usual commercial marketing, what I deliver is pure information, honest and true without exaggeration.
Also it's in line with that Committee's kind intention to let others know that indeed I am in that circle already and should not be insulted, stepped on or denied rightful employment. Unfortunately, people still disbelieve them and even want them to write a letter before hiring me! What an opportunity of a lifetime which they, not I, have missed! In the end, I really don't have time for or need of outside employment. It's they who have lost.
In this respect, it's obvious that this information site is of value to the whole world, not just to myself.
It might appear that I am trying to market myself, but isn't this something also serving the rest of the world? As an analogy, if a great doctor is unknown to the patients, the latter die.
But, when there has been so much Nobel noise, why haven't I been given a Nobel Prize yet? The answer lies in the title of this article, " who is ambitious?"
About couple decades ago, a Nobel Prize committee members professed that it s their duty during selection to also promote the Nobel name in their winners, meaning the better qualified, the greater the work, the more certain to win. By extension, it also means that if there is a potential winner, the more he has achieved, the better. Even though it is the same individual who might have won Nobel Prizes already (1) had he not shown ability to achieve more on the same subject, he/she would not be given one until and unless he/she has done all that is necessary to make that work as complete and fantastic as humanly possible (2). That sounds ideal but sometimes we as mortals can't live forever just to do that. The sad thing is that after passing the individual can no longer invent, and his/her incomplete work would have been denied Nobel recognition. This is why often Nobel Prize winners must be not only intelligent, hard-working, but also immortal! Of course, I would love to win a Nobel Prize when I'm 225 years old! Who wants to be any younger!
2009¸ Kuan-Chyun Cheng
1.How many Noble Prizes should/could Cheng have already won?
2.Cheng alone discovered and proved memory, mind, wilful locomotion, colour vision, motion perception, . . . and now also emotion.
See also A few Nobel Rules,
Precedents and Cheng
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