The difference between scoring a football goal and making a Nobel Prize-awarded discovery

Kurt Wüthrich explains the difference between scoring a football goal and making a Nobel Prize-awarded discovery in science. Wüthrich was so confident about the discovery he made that he went skiing for two years, waiting for others to repeat his experiments and confirm the results.

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Kurt Wüthrich shared the 2002 #Nobel Prize in Chemistry _"for his development of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy for determining the three-dimensional structure of biological macromolecules in solution"_.