Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học quốc tế cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: "Life after 45 and before 60: the Retrovirology Prize. | Retrovirology BioMed Central Editorial Life after 45 and before 60 the Retrovirology Prize Kuan-Teh Jeang Address the National Institutes of Health Bethesda MD USA Email Kuan-Teh Jeang - kj7e@ Corresponding author Open Access Published 15 April 2005 Retrovirology 2005 2 26 doi 1742-4690-2-26 Received 12 April 2005 Accepted 15 April 2005 This article is available from http content 2 1 26 2005 Jeang licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Retrovirology announces an annual prize to recognize one outstanding mid-career retrovirologist. The silent majority In his US presidential campaigns Richard Nixon famously popularized the concept of a silent majority . Fundamentally what Nixon meant was that the stalwart contributors in any given population tend to be a faceless and non-vocal majority . Applying Nixon s term to science where is our silent majority I recently returned from a large international meeting where numerous awards were presented to wunderkinds . Young Investigator Awards and senior statesmen stateswomen of science . Lifetime Achievement Awards . Curiously I found subjectively that the majority of the best work was being presented by a glum-looking bunch of scientists traversing midlife crises . individuals who uncannily resemble me . It struck me that arguably the most productive denizens of science are those in the 45 to 60 age group who are no longer young investigators and not yet competitive for lifetime achievements and they are our equivalent of Nixon s silent majority . The Retrovirology Prize To my knowledge there is no significant scientific prize that is age-restricted to mid-career scientists . between the ages of 45 to 60 . Although .
