President Trump’s brazen campaigning for the Nobel Peace Prize — and the failure of that onslaught — dominate the headlines. But it feels like the president and his many friends and enemies missed the most important lesson coming out of Oslo this week. I’m talking about the extraordinary showing in the sciences by researchers from the U.S. and particularly those associated with the University of California, the world’s greatest public university and also the one placed under a cloud by Trump and his minions at the Department of Education. The Nobel judges recognized a whopping five UC researchers (some still...