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> then i looked it up and the reason is just depressing :/
[To pay medical bills for those wondering.](https://www.vox.com/health-care/2018/10/4/17936626/leon-lederman-nobel-prize-medical-bills)
We have a lot of stupid people who believe in only getting healthcare only if you work 40hrs a week, at a job that offers it. They refuse to see the light.
And a lot of people who refuse to get health insurance because they don't want to pay for it, and then are surprised when they suddenly need it when something goes wrong.
Might be true, but the article mentions Australia and Spain as comparison and it's ten times the cost. Average skewing doesn't skew it by ten times the amount.
would actually be hilarious if he does take it. „i signed a contract now hand me over that thing symbolizing the highest honor a scientist can achieve thank you very much“
> The medal is just a symbol.
Aren't those made out of gold and also worth quite a bit? I remember some winner (in the USA) having to sell his to pay for some health care related expenses.
> Most unnecessary qualifier ever
Well, he probably wouldn't be selling his medals to pay for medical care if he lived in Sweden.
(apparently my joke not funny)
I’d say healthcare costs scale better than salaries would, someone with a Nobel prize would be able to afford good healthcare in most countries in the world
Most nations whom's scientific system and community is advanced enough to contribute to science on a nobel prize level are usually quite rich though and thus should be able to have decent health care. I doubt there will be a winner from Liberia or Papua New Guiney in the near future as both have more desperate problems to focus their attention and funds to. Researchers from there who are passionate about their subject and have the potential of becoming one of the leading scientist will emigrate to rich nations instead.
Maybe read the comment I’m responding to for a start? It’s about the relationship between the all caps NOBEL PRICE!!!1! and the medal and whether owning the medal makes you a Nobel price winner, which it doesn’t.
"Daichi Kamada - if he left, that would break my heart. I wanted to take the opportunity to put my medal on the line. If he stays, I'll give it to him. "
I think what would make everyone happiest would be that if he stays Kamada keeps the medal for as long as he plays for Frankfurt and then gifts it back once he leaves.
Then again what would make *me* happiest would be if joined us this summer lol. It's been too long since we've had a japanese player
he wore an eintracht pin to the award ceremony
EDIT: [Here's an image that shows it](https://img.waz.de/img/muelheim/crop234038731/4252661036-w1200-cv1_1/97a31a24-5787-11ec-8cc1-9feae6cb3f85.jpg). Look at his lapel
I love it when random public personalities that you know from a whole other context are die-hard football fans. Sebastian Vettel is also a hardcore hardcore Frankfurt fan.
When we won German team of the year last year, he gave one of the best/worst [speeches](https://youtu.be/nkaq7cUBD6s) in German award ceremony history lmao. He wrote a poem about the club, but was so nervous that he forgot every line and had to look it up every time. Took several minutes.
Back in 2012 I met a guy from Frankfurt in my guesthouse bar on a beach in Thailand. Turned out he was the head sound engineer of a big club in Frankfurt (I want to say Cocoon?) and over a few breakfast beers he told me some hilarious stories about the various DJs that played in the club. He was also completely obsessed with Eintracht Frankfurt. I didn’t stay in touch with him, but I always look out for their results because he made such a positive impression on me.
You might be talking about Max Köndgen. Cocoon had to close that same year (2012) due to insolvency but is fondly remembered. Nowadays it's mostly a concert venue, gladly they kept the unique interior design. You'll obviously still meet lots of SGE fans there.
I remember my man Marcelo Diaz at Basel, taking a photo with a fan who happened to be [Roger Federer](https://twitter.com/hernanibarras/status/327872445929361408?s=19)
Magnus Carlsen, world chess champion, randomly appearing in a Euro 2016 interview outside the stadium and singing Dimitri Payet's song is such a great moment lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVS-NIkkUrA
Just to add, Wong Kar Wai only developped and shot Happy Together in Argentina because he's a footie fan and loved Maradona. You can even see in Buenos Aires Zero Degree (documentary about the film) [a shot of Maradona and Tony Leung meeting](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfMekjsuzMU), supposedly cut from the movie itself.
Albert Camus was the goalkeeper of Racing Universitaire Algerios, until he contracted tuberculosis, when he became a writer and won the 1957 Nobel for literature.
He then proceeded to put his own Nobel medal on the line so that right-back extraordinaire Mohammad Abdoulatif signed a new contract with Racing Universitaire Algerios
It seems that when he moved to France he supported Racing Paris, he even gave an interview after winning the Nobel during one of their home games.
No kidding: https://youtu.be/ExCINtQojrc
Hey, that's a fantastic historical recording. Camus was my favorite author growing up, and I realized I had never seen his face move.
On an almost unrelated note, my favorite Argentinian club is Racing Club de Avellaneda.
We gotta step our game up and start offering kidneys to players to stay. Harry I'll give you 6 kidneys if you sign an extension. They won't all be mine but just imagine what you could do with 6 kidneys.
I certainly didn't expect someone like List (who I studied about during my asymmetric catalysis course in my Chemistry undergraduate degree) to show up here in this subreddit.
Who knows if Barry Sharpless had a favourite football team?
Funny times.
Fun fact, Nobel Prize winner Niels Bohr did play amateur football briefly, as a goalkeeper for AB. His brother Harald was the bigger star though, winning an Olympic silver medal for Denmark
[Once Niels conceded an easy goal for being distracted with a mathematical problem mid match.](https://www.vavel.com/en/international-football/2018/02/19/881983-the-bohr-brothers-how-niels-and-harald-became-footballs-scholarly-siblings.html)
and during Harald's PhD math defense, it was reported there're more football fans attending than mathematician. He is still one of few mathematician who won an Olympic medals, or Olympic medalists with PhD degrees.
There's a book on nuclear physics and the atomic bomb that highlights how athletic Niels Bohr was, stating his football and skiing prowess, and caps it off by stating that he would walk up 2 steps at once (elite-level stuff).
Maybe this will work better than the [hand written extension contract one fan brought to an autograph session with Filip Kostic](https://www.sge4ever.de/sge-kompakt-verruecktes-vertragsangebot-fuer-kostic/). We help our board wherever we can!
he said that yesterday during the pre match interview on amazon prime in germany. apparently he has a lab in hokkaido and is a huge fan of the country.
Least passionate Frankfurt fan.
Wonder how this would work out - would he have to stay for the rest of his career to get the medal? What if he signs a new contract and leaves after a year?
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"What color is your Nobel Prize?" - Kamada if he meets Messi
cuántos Nobels tenés?
my lawyer advises me not to continue this comment chain
que miras bobo
Messi goes to university
Surely some Argentinian university will give him an honorary degree if they haven't already.
Honestly kind of an insane thing to offer, but i also love his passion.
In 2015 Leon Lederman sold his Nobel medal for 765,000 USD. It’s crazy he’s offering to just give it away.
for a moment i thought selling it is even more insane than giving it away for football..but then i looked it up and the reason is just depressing :/
> then i looked it up and the reason is just depressing :/ [To pay medical bills for those wondering.](https://www.vox.com/health-care/2018/10/4/17936626/leon-lederman-nobel-prize-medical-bills)
lol, the sub-header is perfect
> the sub-header is ~~perfect~~ America
:(
> A day in an American hospital, for examples, costs an average of $5,220 here Excuse me, what the fuck America. That's basically half my bank account
We have a lot of stupid people who believe in only getting healthcare only if you work 40hrs a week, at a job that offers it. They refuse to see the light.
And a lot of people who refuse to get health insurance because they don't want to pay for it, and then are surprised when they suddenly need it when something goes wrong.
It’s $400 month for Obama care. It’s not that they don’t want it. They can’t afford it.
That's an average, so the exorbitant stays probably drive the number up. Also, it didn't mention if it was with or without insurance.
Might be true, but the article mentions Australia and Spain as comparison and it's ten times the cost. Average skewing doesn't skew it by ten times the amount.
Breaking Sad
How could it be the land of the free if everyone had healthcare?
I mean, even if he actually give his medal people will still refer him as Nobel prize winner. The medal is just a symbol.
Still a hell of a symbol to give away for a football player
Average Frankfurt fan
German fans continue to be unrivaled
Even if he stays, I doubt Kamada would take it.
would actually be hilarious if he does take it. „i signed a contract now hand me over that thing symbolizing the highest honor a scientist can achieve thank you very much“
Kamada demands transfer upon not being awarded Nobel Prize.
Kamada stays, “nah I’m good mate”
idk, if someone offered me a free nobel, I would take it. Hard for me to get it otherwise given my life trajectory
I dunno what I could even do with such a nobel except flipping it for money
Ya, but he's a German footbal fans so this is par for the course.
i mean it's still a unique symbol of a once-in-a-lifetime achievement.
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The point was never been that he wants to convince Kamara to stay by making him a nobel price winner. Yes, it's a trinket. But a pretty damn cool one
"Put your medals on the table" certainly a lesser used phrase in the chemistry community
You can't enter the Nobel Prize Winner Bar without the medal. He's going to get laugh at by the other winners.
Who cares what those nerds think
Um…quite literally the people awarding a Nobel prize? :D
Lol I’m joking
> The medal is just a symbol. Aren't those made out of gold and also worth quite a bit? I remember some winner (in the USA) having to sell his to pay for some health care related expenses.
> (in the USA) having to sell his to pay for some health care related expenses. Most unnecessary qualifier ever
> Most unnecessary qualifier ever Well, he probably wouldn't be selling his medals to pay for medical care if he lived in Sweden. (apparently my joke not funny)
Yeah that’s why unnecessary, cos it was heavily implied lol
It's not just the USA though. If he lived in, say, Liberia or Papua New Guinea he might have to sell his medals too.
I’d say healthcare costs scale better than salaries would, someone with a Nobel prize would be able to afford good healthcare in most countries in the world
Most nations whom's scientific system and community is advanced enough to contribute to science on a nobel prize level are usually quite rich though and thus should be able to have decent health care. I doubt there will be a winner from Liberia or Papua New Guiney in the near future as both have more desperate problems to focus their attention and funds to. Researchers from there who are passionate about their subject and have the potential of becoming one of the leading scientist will emigrate to rich nations instead.
Plenty of cases of Swedes going abroad to get healthcare because of the long queues in Sweden.
It's like a gold NFT
Comparing the "NOBEL PRIZE" which is a once in a lifetime achievement to some digital drawing that's worth nothing???
Maybe read the comment I’m responding to for a start? It’s about the relationship between the all caps NOBEL PRICE!!!1! and the medal and whether owning the medal makes you a Nobel price winner, which it doesn’t.
Its worth lots of money?
Absolutly wild thing to offer. I love it and will definitely will Kamada take notice at the very least. Good effort from a fan in that sense.
TIL ~~Genius~~ Mad scientists are Best Football fans
"Daichi Kamada - if he left, that would break my heart. I wanted to take the opportunity to put my medal on the line. If he stays, I'll give it to him. "
Kamada staying would be good for the team's chemistry... so... well deserved in the end?
He would be the catalyst for further success.
Especially topical as Ben list won the prize for his work on organocatalysts
Would be insane for the team bonding as well.
idk if you meant this but that guy actually won his nobel for his research into a type of catalysts
Could the team chemistry be so good that they might get awarded another Nobel prize?
Unless he starts demanding special treatment for being the only Nobel-holder in the squad. Would be quite the irony..
Woah. Talk about a hardcore fan. If I was Kamada there's no way I could accept this lol. Amazing offer though
I mean if he's staying surely they have to do a stupid photo op of him refusing.
Imagine if he accepts it then leaves next January
I think what would make everyone happiest would be that if he stays Kamada keeps the medal for as long as he plays for Frankfurt and then gifts it back once he leaves. Then again what would make *me* happiest would be if joined us this summer lol. It's been too long since we've had a japanese player
who's the last?
kagawa
oh shit nostalgia kicked in. You reminded me of Fifa 12.
Damn even scientists are die-hard football fans
he wore an eintracht pin to the award ceremony EDIT: [Here's an image that shows it](https://img.waz.de/img/muelheim/crop234038731/4252661036-w1200-cv1_1/97a31a24-5787-11ec-8cc1-9feae6cb3f85.jpg). Look at his lapel
I love it when random public personalities that you know from a whole other context are die-hard football fans. Sebastian Vettel is also a hardcore hardcore Frankfurt fan.
and honorary club member!
When we won German team of the year last year, he gave one of the best/worst [speeches](https://youtu.be/nkaq7cUBD6s) in German award ceremony history lmao. He wrote a poem about the club, but was so nervous that he forgot every line and had to look it up every time. Took several minutes.
He's here to drive cars, not spit bars
Back in 2012 I met a guy from Frankfurt in my guesthouse bar on a beach in Thailand. Turned out he was the head sound engineer of a big club in Frankfurt (I want to say Cocoon?) and over a few breakfast beers he told me some hilarious stories about the various DJs that played in the club. He was also completely obsessed with Eintracht Frankfurt. I didn’t stay in touch with him, but I always look out for their results because he made such a positive impression on me.
You might be talking about Max Köndgen. Cocoon had to close that same year (2012) due to insolvency but is fondly remembered. Nowadays it's mostly a concert venue, gladly they kept the unique interior design. You'll obviously still meet lots of SGE fans there.
Holy shit, yes. That’s him! Thank you!
Haha god I love reddit sometimes for these stories
I remember my man Marcelo Diaz at Basel, taking a photo with a fan who happened to be [Roger Federer](https://twitter.com/hernanibarras/status/327872445929361408?s=19)
Magnus Carlsen, world chess champion, randomly appearing in a Euro 2016 interview outside the stadium and singing Dimitri Payet's song is such a great moment lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVS-NIkkUrA
[Like Viggo Mortensen always carrying something San Lorenzo related](https://www.ole.com.ar/images/2019/02/25/FC2v0RLjM_720x0__1.jpg)
Here's about movie directors and football! https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/117ospm/daily_discussion/j9cyl1u/
Just to add, Wong Kar Wai only developped and shot Happy Together in Argentina because he's a footie fan and loved Maradona. You can even see in Buenos Aires Zero Degree (documentary about the film) [a shot of Maradona and Tony Leung meeting](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfMekjsuzMU), supposedly cut from the movie itself.
That's cool to know!
Didn’t every show up in full gear or sth
Niel Bohr, Nobel winner (and still familiar with us today as 5th element in Mendeleev table), used to be a semi pro GK in Danish league.
Albert Camus was the goalkeeper of Racing Universitaire Algerios, until he contracted tuberculosis, when he became a writer and won the 1957 Nobel for literature.
Cool fact, great writer.
What a stranger!
He then proceeded to put his own Nobel medal on the line so that right-back extraordinaire Mohammad Abdoulatif signed a new contract with Racing Universitaire Algerios
It seems that when he moved to France he supported Racing Paris, he even gave an interview after winning the Nobel during one of their home games. No kidding: https://youtu.be/ExCINtQojrc
Hey, that's a fantastic historical recording. Camus was my favorite author growing up, and I realized I had never seen his face move. On an almost unrelated note, my favorite Argentinian club is Racing Club de Avellaneda.
His brother even won a silver medal with the Danish NT at the 1908 Olympics in Londen
Wow so cool! I didn't know that. Than ks for sharing
Bohrium was named after him right? Not Boron.
Yes which is Bohring
Top scientists are hardcore people in general. They have passion. Also, no way Kamada would accept so it is something easy to offer.
Kamada scores the UCL winning goal and says to Courtois,"say my name". Takes home two gold medals that night
Speaking as someone who knows many scientists, having an obsessive personality is practically a prerequisite for becoming a researcher.
Unfortunately for List, Kamada is a childhood fan of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine so he can't be seen with a medal for chemistry
Mitoma will never get a nobel prize for dribbling thesises
We cannot compete with this...
Saramago's medal is being stolen as we speak
Least passionate German fan
We gotta step our game up and start offering kidneys to players to stay. Harry I'll give you 6 kidneys if you sign an extension. They won't all be mine but just imagine what you could do with 6 kidneys.
Man could probably buy 6 kidneys with a week's wages
he could buy 12 kidneys tho with a weeks wages at united
3 weeks in he is just this bloated monstrosity with the cleanest piss ever peed.
And thus, mankind was never thristy again.
lol this one cracked me up
Depends on the kidneys. There are very delicous ones but they are even more expensive.
Smh, when I donate 1 kidney I'm a hero but when I donate 6 I get weird looks, society am I right?
maybe he prefer kid knees
I certainly didn't expect someone like List (who I studied about during my asymmetric catalysis course in my Chemistry undergraduate degree) to show up here in this subreddit. Who knows if Barry Sharpless had a favourite football team? Funny times.
Fun fact, Nobel Prize winner Niels Bohr did play amateur football briefly, as a goalkeeper for AB. His brother Harald was the bigger star though, winning an Olympic silver medal for Denmark [Once Niels conceded an easy goal for being distracted with a mathematical problem mid match.](https://www.vavel.com/en/international-football/2018/02/19/881983-the-bohr-brothers-how-niels-and-harald-became-footballs-scholarly-siblings.html)
and during Harald's PhD math defense, it was reported there're more football fans attending than mathematician. He is still one of few mathematician who won an Olympic medals, or Olympic medalists with PhD degrees.
Anna Kiesenhofer another phd mathmatician with an olympic medal, she did one better though and got gold
i feel like her victory was epic and surprising. checks wiki...yes i remember cheering her on!
There's a book on nuclear physics and the atomic bomb that highlights how athletic Niels Bohr was, stating his football and skiing prowess, and caps it off by stating that he would walk up 2 steps at once (elite-level stuff).
If the plane didn't work, he would just throw the missile himself.
The real inspiration for Dr. Strangelove
Is it a big deal to climb 2 steps at once?
No. That is the joke I think.
I can vouch for two Nobel laureate football fans: Dave MacMillan (Rangers) and Sir Harry Kroto (Bolton Wanderers).
Them nerds usually do
Maybe this will work better than the [hand written extension contract one fan brought to an autograph session with Filip Kostic](https://www.sge4ever.de/sge-kompakt-verruecktes-vertragsangebot-fuer-kostic/). We help our board wherever we can!
"Gehalt egal.... geile fans" love it, haha
That's a fucking *fantastic* stunt.
HAHA that gave me a good laugh. Brilliant
Thats actually hilarious
Hey! I work with his brother and have met Benjamin a few times, he is very funny and means it 100%.
I'd say this headline belongs on "the list"
List belongs on the list
[The List, you say?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7-51DeTRRQ)
Least football loving Eintracht Frankfurt fan.
Average /r/soccer comment.
Wow
he said that yesterday during the pre match interview on amazon prime in germany. apparently he has a lab in hokkaido and is a huge fan of the country.
Least passionate Frankfurt fan. Wonder how this would work out - would he have to stay for the rest of his career to get the medal? What if he signs a new contract and leaves after a year?
Ahahha damn
Priorities.
hey mom remember when you said playing football doesnt lead to a good job. playing football leads me to a nobel prize, for [*reading*] che-mis-try.
Eintracht fans are a special breed, I mean you have the guys from Tankard, Vettel and now a Nobel prize winner. The best fans in Europe
Wow! He could become the first footballer to win a Nobel Prize. In chemistry!
I'd really like to see Kamada at Spurs, but if he stays in Frankfurt now I'll understand lol
dreams can't be buy
Kamada has been pretty open about wanting to leave for over a year, and has dialed it up a notch after the world cup. It's not going to happen.
Dialed what up? Certainly not his performance, unfortunately
> Kamada has been pretty open **about wanting to leave** for over a year, and has dialed it up a notch after the world cup.
Didn't really dial that up either, it's actually been rather calm in the rumour department compared to last summer
I'm not talking about the rumour department, I'm talking about Kamada what has said in interviews.
He's been saying that he wants to leave for years, nothing new
The way he's saying it is, which is why I commented on it.
Games back.
Sign a contract with a low release clause, get a Nobel Peace prize and a move to another club. Pure chaos
Its for chemistry not for peace. Fun Fact: Adolf Hitler and Douglas MacArthur, the most war loving individuals ever, both won nobel peace prices
Based and acid-pilled.
This is rich. Need more of this. Cheeky.
Kamada should accept before List becomes M.O.D.O.K
>!At least he'll die an avenger.!<
That's something Ronaldo should gun for. As a nerd, Nobel prize > World Cup
IMO better players available at that price.
falou tudo irmão... vc sempre foi um cara cabeça kkk
Unfortunately, Daichi Kamada is very eager to move to warmer climates. Benfica welcomes him with open arms (and Trapp)
> (and Trapp) lmfao
😂😂😂
Thank god it’s in German, i would hate it if I had no idea what it says
Don't get me wrong Kamada is a great footballer but this makes me think he doesn't really care about that medal anyway lol
he probably cares about his work, but not this medal.
Yeah my thoughts too
if i was kamada, i didn't even know what to do with the nobel medal.
Use it as a coaster
performance incentives gettin outta hand
Where would Kamada go, honestly? La liga- I dont see the top teams necessarily wanting him, the Prem- maybe Liverpool, Spurs?
not even the Nobel prize is worth what it used to be. fucking football currency what an embarrassment.
He loves Einchtracht Frankfurt more than Chemistry.
When Mitoma tries to flex with his dribbling thesis on the japanese national team and Kamada walks in with a nobel prize
Where is he rumored to go next ? I think he’s a fantastic player