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Not All 'A's: Unconventional Paths That Led To Nobels

Frances Arnold won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and told AFP she was 'disruptive' and 'bored' in the classroom (Credit: AFP)

Some Nobel laureates were straight-A students from the get-go. But others AFP spoke to recounted how they cut class, got expelled, and had doubts about their future.

Perhaps the most illustrious Nobel Prize winner, Albert Einstein, was once a mediocre student at Zurich Polytechnic School, now ETH Zurich.

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