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Cori lab shows organization beats raw genius
Gerty and Carl Cori ran a lab at Washington University St. Louis that produced six Nobel laureate students despite not being the most prestigious lab able to cherry-pick top talent, suggesting their success rested on replicable organizational structures and cultural practices rather than on access to rare 'seven-sigma' genius — which matters because such practices are, in principle, replicable.
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Patrick CollisonEvidence Quote
“the thing that distinguished them and their students was not that they were these seven 'sigma-Martians', it was rather that they found organizational structures and cultural practices that really worked. Those are, at least in principle, more replicable.”
Created: 6/13/2026, 3:26:23 AM
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