In recognizing academic merit of a scientist for an award/prize/honour, howsoever objective the method may be, one cannot claim not to have left out a deserving case for consideration. Do all of us who matter for recognizing merit have the requisite knowledge about the work being done in all the active fields of even one discipline? Obviously one/two active fields and their top workers are certain to be left out. Therefore a mechanism should be devised to invite nominations so as to cover all the active fields of research in any discipline for consideration of merit and for awards/rewards/prizes, etc.
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