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Message 34639 - Posted: 14 Mar 2018, 17:35:40 UTC - in response to Message 34624.  

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Message 34642 - Posted: 14 Mar 2018, 18:47:12 UTC - in response to Message 34639.  
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Message 34643 - Posted: 14 Mar 2018, 18:51:00 UTC

Why he did not get a Nobel prize? Much lesser people got it.
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Message 34646 - Posted: 14 Mar 2018, 19:08:46 UTC - in response to Message 34643.  

Why he did not get a Nobel prize? Much lesser people got it.
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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.
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Message 34656 - Posted: 15 Mar 2018, 0:05:21 UTC

(and today would be Albert Einstein's 139th birthday)
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Message 34669 - Posted: 15 Mar 2018, 12:12:45 UTC - in response to Message 34643.  

Why he did not get a Nobel prize? Much lesser people got it.
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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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Message 34683 - Posted: 16 Mar 2018, 18:41:18 UTC

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.
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Message 34684 - Posted: 16 Mar 2018, 19:14:21 UTC - in response to Message 34683.  
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Cheer up Tullio: where there's life there's hope (:-))... Ben
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Message 34856 - Posted: 2 Apr 2018, 17:07:19 UTC

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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