As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with a Nobel Prize

Today the Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to three Americans, a Canadian, a Briton, a Hong Kong academic, a graduate of Woolwich polytechnic, and a University of Pennsylvania graduate, but no Israelis. Any others?

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[Dipper]

one more. A man from Harlow. Now that is a first...

[tomslee]

First few responses to Googling "A man from Harlow". Number 6 seems appropriate.
1. A man from Harlow who threatened to stab a woman...
2. A man from Harlow complained that an article concerning his father's funeral...
3. Police said a man from Harlow, charged with manslaughter,...
4. A 43-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after the death of a man from Harlow...
5. A Man from Harlow was killed after falling from a bridge onto the M25...
6. a man from Harlow was given a Fixed Penalty Notice (FPN) for throwing a water bomb out of a car in Fair Green, Sawbridgeworth...
Almost poetic, but not at all scientific.

[tomslee]

Meanwhile, here are the first few "A man from Toronto". This could run and run.
1. A man from Toronto is the first in the world to get his eyeballs tattooed...
2. A man from Toronto is the second Canadian to die after contracting swine flu...
3. The painting was purchased at a silent auction on Sunday by a man from Toronto ...
4. A man from Toronto described how he had participated in Baha'i study circles and later joined the Baha'i community...
5. A man from Toronto is urging all those who have slept with his stripper ex-wife to get an HIV test done...

[Yappa]

Yes, we had no Israelis, but now we have one: from , dated today: "Americans Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas Steitz and Israeli Ada Yonath have won the 2009 Nobel Prize in chemistry for “studies of the structure of the ribosome.”"

Btw, I know not where this Harlow is, but a search on "a man from Harlow" yields an awful lot of crime stories. I suggest avoiding Harlow.

Apologies for the digression from St. Ives. ;-)

[Dipper]

Yappa - its a new town about thirty miles north of London. A number of new towns were built just after WWII to house people left homeless after the bombing of London in the Blitz, and also a lot of Scots came down to work. Population about 80,000.

Its a low-income working class kind of place, hence the crime stats, but has a number of research laboratories. The main ones now are pharmaceutical, but also the former STC labs, now Nortel, where fibre optics were developed, hence the Nobel prize and world-wide fame.

I regularly go to Harlow for shopping and theatre, and have had no bad experiences, so the crime stats are a bit misleading. But were you to visit the UK, I wouldn't advise breaking your schedule to visit it.