{"id":984,"date":"2002-10-09T12:55:42","date_gmt":"2002-10-09T20:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2002\/10\/09\/nobel-laureate-graduated-last-in-his-class\/"},"modified":"2002-10-09T12:55:42","modified_gmt":"2002-10-09T20:55:42","slug":"nobel-laureate-graduated-last-in-his-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2002\/10\/09\/nobel-laureate-graduated-last-in-his-class","title":{"rendered":"Nobel Laureate Graduated Last In His&nbsp;Class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Masatoshi Koshiba, who just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobel.se\/physics\/laureates\/2002\/index.html\">won 25% of this year\u2019s Nobel Prize in physics<\/a> (I didn\u2019t even know you could be a 25% winner), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yomiuri.co.jp\/newse\/20021010wo33.htm\">graduated last in his class<\/a> at Tokyo University over 50 years&nbsp;ago.<\/p>\n<p>He only made two A\u2019s in his last two years of college, both of which were in lab classes where the grade was based on attendance.<\/p>\n<p>Hmmm.\u2026 makes you think, doesn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n<p>Evidently he took the Teacher\u2019s words to heart: \u201cOf making many books there is no end, and much study wearies the body.\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/bible.gospelcom.net\/cgi-bin\/bible?passage=ECC%2B12%3A12&amp;showfn=on&amp;showxref=on&amp;language=english&amp;version=NIV&amp;x=18&amp;y=12\">Ecc 12.12b, NIV<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Masatoshi Koshiba, who just won 25% of this year\u2019s Nobel Prize in physics (I didn\u2019t even know you could be a 25% winner), graduated last in his class at Tokyo University over 50 years&nbsp;ago. He only made two A\u2019s in his last two years of college, both of which were in lab classes where the \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2002\/10\/09\/nobel-laureate-graduated-last-in-his-class\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cNobel Laureate Graduated Last In His&nbsp;Class\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-of-random-interest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-fS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}