{"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 Class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Masatoshi Koshi\u00adba, 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 did\u00adn\u2019t even know you could be a 25% win\u00adner), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yomiuri.co.jp\/newse\/20021010wo33.htm\">grad\u00adu\u00adat\u00aded last in his class<\/a> at Tokyo Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty over 50 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>He only made two A\u2019s in his last two years of col\u00adlege, both of which were in lab class\u00ades where the grade was based on atten\u00addance.<\/p>\n<p>Hmmm.\u2026 makes you think, does\u00adn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n<p>Evi\u00addent\u00adly he took the Teacher\u2019s words to heart: \u201cOf mak\u00ading many books there is no end, and much study wea\u00adries 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 Koshi\u00adba, who just won 25% of this year\u2019s Nobel Prize in physics (I did\u00adn\u2019t even know you could be a 25% win\u00adner), grad\u00adu\u00adat\u00aded last in his class at Tokyo Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty over 50 years ago. He only made two A\u2019s in his last two years of col\u00adlege, both of which were in lab class\u00ades where \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2002\/10\/09\/nobel-laureate-graduated-last-in-his-class\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cNobel Lau\u00adre\u00adate Grad\u00adu\u00adat\u00aded Last In His 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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"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}]}}