To: Born to Conserve
Theoretical Physics accomplishments never get Nobel prizes!
It’s considered a form of Mathematics by the Nobel committee.
Alfred Nobel purposely set up his “prize” for “practical science”, practical in the sense it had to directly benefit mankind. (Of course “practical & beneficial “ as he defined “practical & beneficial”. Why not? It was his money!) The Physics prizes are all some form of Experimental Physics. The idea being experiments & the results are "practical"!)
For example, Steve Hawkings has never won a Noble Prize and John Nash’s Nobel Prize was in Economics not Mathematics ! [Game Theory (Non-cooperative game theory, I think ?) as applied to economics. ]
The Mathematics rough equivalent of the Nobel Prize is the Fields Medal. I have no idea what the Field Medal criteria is or is work in Theoretical Physics even eligible. Also I don't think the Fields Medal is as lucrative.
51 posted on
08/19/2007 10:40:58 AM PDT by
Reily
To: Reily
Theoretical Physics accomplishments never get Nobel prizes! Its considered a form of Mathematics by the Nobel committee. Ummm, you might want to actually look at the list of the physics recipients and the work that got them the prize.
59 posted on
08/19/2007 3:26:37 PM PDT by
Erasmus
(My simplifying explanation had the disconcerting side effect of making the subject incomprehensible.)
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