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  "winning_edge": "Echegaray is usually reduced to a pub-quiz line. This object binds the award, the shared prize and the engineer-statesman career to the official Nobel record, and documents the Nobel Foundation's own birth-year discrepancy instead of silently picking one.",
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  "body": "A note on the birth year: the Nobel Foundation's facts page records\n19 April 1832, while the older biographical essay on the same site\nprints 1833. This object follows the facts page; the discrepancy is\nflagged rather than hidden.\n",
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