Yesterday I noted that the Nobel Prize for Medicine went for work done more than 20 years ago. Apparently this is a competition among the various Nobel areas, because they just awarded a share of the 2005 Nobel Prize for Physics for work published in 1963.
Maybe they should just call them the Nobel Lifetime Achievement Prizes.
1 hour ago
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Not only that, but the theorist got half the money in the physics award (the experimentalists split the rest). About bloody time, too. Theorists are still shaking their pocket protectors about the whole Penzias and Wilson thing 40 years ago. Grrr.
Meg
(a theorist)
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