Lack of evidence put Hawking’s Nobel hopes in black hole

AP ^ | March 14, 2018 | Seth Borenstein

[C19fan]

Stephen Hawking won accolades from his peers for having one of the most brilliant minds in science, but he never got a Nobel Prize because no one has yet proven his ideas.

The Nobel committee looks for proof, not big ideas. Hawking was a deep thinker — a theorist — and his musings about black holes and cosmology have yet to get the lockdown evidence that accompanies the physics prizes, his fellow scientists said.

[Fred Hayek]

Two different committees. The Peace Prize committee is in Oslo. All others are in Stockholm.

[SuperLuminal]

"I won’t miss Hawking."

As a physicist (a long time ago), I always associated "hawking" with clearing congestion when you have a bad cold... In this universe...

35-years later, I still do...