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Which decision paid off only after many years, when its value could not yet be proved?

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Arvid Carlsson Pharmacologist; Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 2000
I was fortunate even from that point of view because I got a very good research collaboration agreement with Upjohn, the American Upjohn company. So that could help me to go on with my research.
Recorded Adam Smith, Interview at the Nobel Foundation, Stockholm, Nobel Prize Outreach, 9 April 2008 source ↗
Geoffrey Hinton Computer scientist; Nobel laureate in Physics, 2024
I would like to have been concerned about this existential threat sooner.
Recorded Adam Smith, Nobel Week in Stockholm, Nobel Prize Outreach, 6 December 2024 source ↗

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