This editorial in Nature (16 October 2003 Volume 425 Issue No 6959) discusses how the scientific peer-review process struggles with assessing ground-breaking new ideas:
From the introduction:
“Accounts of rejected Nobel-winning discoveries highlight the conservatism in science. Despite their historical misjudgements, journal editors can help, but above all, visionaries will need sheer persistence.”
Here is the paper by Juan Miguel Capanario mentioned in the Nature article that finally found a journal that agreed to publish it in 2009!
Rejecting Nobel class articles and resisting Nobel class discoveries.
