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Magic Quantum MechanicSend message Joined: 24 Oct 04 Posts: 1243 Credit: 85,791,952 RAC: 145,704 |
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Magic Quantum MechanicSend message Joined: 24 Oct 04 Posts: 1243 Credit: 85,791,952 RAC: 145,704 |
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Send message Joined: 19 Feb 08 Posts: 708 Credit: 4,336,250 RAC: 0 |
Why he did not get a Nobel prize? Much lesser people got it. Tullio |
Magic Quantum MechanicSend message Joined: 24 Oct 04 Posts: 1243 Credit: 85,791,952 RAC: 145,704 |
Why he did not get a Nobel prize? Much lesser people got it. Always been that way Tullio Nikola Tesla found that out. But knowing Nobel they will probably give Hawking one now or name one after him. |
Magic Quantum MechanicSend message Joined: 24 Oct 04 Posts: 1243 Credit: 85,791,952 RAC: 145,704 |
(and today would be Albert Einstein's 139th birthday) |
Ben SegalSend message Joined: 1 Sep 04 Posts: 143 Credit: 2,579 RAC: 0 |
Why he did not get a Nobel prize? Much lesser people got it. There has been lots of controversy over why astronomers don't get Nobels (although astrophysicists have done). There's a good paper on this topic at https://home.fnal.gov/~carrigan/nobel/Nobel_space.htm There are some anecdotes trying to explain this, and the same for mathematicians (for whom there are definitely no Nobels) by claiming that Alfred Nobel's wife ran away with an astronomer/mathematician respectively. Amusing, but apparently Alfred Nobel wasn't married... Another nice reference is at http://mathforum.org/social/articles/ross.html. |
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Send message Joined: 19 Feb 08 Posts: 708 Credit: 4,336,250 RAC: 0 |
Well, relativity never gained Einstein a Nobel prize, although he has merited at least five, in my opinion. It looks like that the Nobel Committee does not like theoretical physics. Alas, I shall never get a Nobel prize. Tullio |
Ben SegalSend message Joined: 1 Sep 04 Posts: 143 Credit: 2,579 RAC: 0 |
Cheer up Tullio: where there's life there's hope (:-))... Ben |
Ray MurraySend message Joined: 29 Sep 04 Posts: 281 Credit: 11,888,115 RAC: 9 |
He will be given the honour of being interred in Westminster Abbey close to the graves of Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin. |
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