Re: [Phys-L] prize

[Bernard Cleyet <bernard@cleyet.org>]

On 2014, Oct 07, , at 11:43, John Denker <jsd@av8n.com> wrote:

> My observation: Some people imagine that all of physics
> is esoteric and obscure, and that "progress" takes it 
> in the direction of increasing incomprehensibility.
> For example, last year's prize -- although well 
> deserved -- honored work that most people had never 
> heard of, and wouldn't understand if you told them. 

The urban myth I heard was PE not relativity, because practicality.  


verified?

The Nobel Prize awards “those who during the preceding year have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind” as instructed in Alfred Nobel’s will. Alfred donated roughly 1,630 million dollars to be invested to fund the Nobel prizes and it is in Alfred Nobel’s will that we find the only criteria for winning a Nobel Prize that today is 10 million dollars.


further:

Physics

The Nobel Prize for physics should be given to be given to, “the person who shall have made the most important discovery or invention within the field of physics”

Nobel Prize Criteria by Unwirklich VinZant | Humanities 360  



http://www.humanities360.com/index.php/nobel-prize-criteria-20453/  


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