What’s more valuable: a patent or a Nobel Prize?

In 2020 Jennifer Doudna from the University of California at Berkeley was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry alongside colleague Emmanuelle Charpentier from the University of Vienna for their work developing CRISPR-Cas9, a genome editing breakthrough that has revolutionized biomedicine. Aside from the scientific bragging rights, the Nobel win grants Doudna access to special free parking on the Berkeley campus.