2023 Nobel Prize in Physics announced

[gary]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-10-03/nobel-prize-physics-2023-attosecond-pulses-electrons/102931038

[ChrisD]

there were 3 winners this year. Personally, if I was going to win it, I would hope for no winners the previous year so it jackpotted.

Chris

[gary]

Three is the maximum number of people who can win a Nobel Prize at the
same time, except for the Peace Prize which can be awarded to institutions. :)

This obviously gets tricky when more than three people have made
significant contributions to the discovery.

There tends to be a bias towards experimentalists rather than theoreticians.
You are more likely to win it if you do the work in the lab and make the
discovery rather than your boss who came up with the idea for it and
asked you to go do the experiment.

There have been some exceptions. Having come up with the theory of the Higgs Boson,
Higgs had to essentially wait 50 years when it was experimentally confirmed to be awarded the
Nobel. Roger Penrose won it “for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the
general theory of relativity.” If Black Holes had never been confirmed by observation, doubtless
there would have been less chance of it being awarded to him.

Alfred Nobel's will stated that the prizes should be awarded to “those who,
during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit to
humankind.” 

From 1974, a prize cannot be awarded posthumously, unless death has
occurred after the announcement.

[ChrisD]

Sooo... I should limit my syndicate to 3 people, understood!! :)

(I've often tried to add a little humour in my responses but it mostly falls flat on IIS. I don't think I'm that good at it...)

Thanks for your general explanation of the Mr. Nobel's prize. A good read. I think anyone who harbours an enquiring mind, and that naturally includes anyone who prizes a telescope, would admire those who win a free trip to Stockholm. As you touched upon, there have been instances of deserving people who have missed out like Chemist and crystallographer Rosalind Franklin, and Fred Hoyle. My personal fav winners are the Curie family, mum won 2, dad had one, their daughter won one, and her husband had one. I don't know what they talked about over Christmas lunch but it would have been interesting.

Chris

[RB]

I cracked up Chris, it was very funny.

RB
:lol:

[gary]

Hi Chris,

Unfortunately you do have an uphill battle. The good news is that
the crowd here on IIS are all really smart and so they got the joke.
The bad news is that the crowd here on IIS are all really smart and
appreciate it was not a terribly good joke.

Except RB. Who cracked up.

:lol:

[RB]

Gary knows me too well!!

:lol:

[ChrisD]

I think you have a well developed sense of wit RB.
Clearly, if there was a Nobel prize given for contribution to the field of humor, you'd be on the judging panel. ;)

Chris

[RB]

Hahaha, thanks Chris.
I’d split it with the winner.

:lol: