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by giardini 533 days ago
I thought it would be Robert Trivers who had some rough spots in his academic career, but I was wrong! Trivers is in biology, which has no Nobel prize.

Trivers instead got the Crafoord Prize, which awards $500,000. See what Steven Pinker said about Trivers' ideas:

https://www.edge.org/memberbio/robert_trivers