Former winners of the Crafoord Prize, Qiu and Edward Whitten, understandably conveyed an attitude that lessons must be learned to avoid greater mistakes in the future. After all, if one scandal could bring down a dean, the position of the dean at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences would be too risky.
And not every dean would have such a spirit of sacrifice.
For the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Nobel Prize remained of paramount importance.
Although the Crafoord Prize is also one of the internationally renowned science awards, people generally describe it as almost synonymous with the Nobel Prize. However, the Crafoord Prize has four categories, and its influence in mathematics is still less than that of the Fields Medal and the Wolff Prize.
In other words, there was still a chance for correction. If foolishness began to occur with the Nobel Prize, then there would likely be no salvation.
