Who do you consider potentiel noble prize takers for next year? Who has not got a noble prize who you think should get one?

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What is a noble prize?

Sporally. Nobel. Henrietta Leavitt posthumously. I'd like to see them address some past oversights, perhaps one a year in addition to their normal complement. Mary Duggan, who fought for women's rights to equal pay for the Peace Prize..Title 9 funding.. the Rockland Case. Fritz Zwicky....decades ahead of his time, just awesome insights. Nuff said. Pete.

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Paul Brumer and Moshe Shapiro in chemistry. They figured out how to use lasers to get very specific chemical reactions (most importantly, selecting chiral products). It will probably revolutionize the pharmaceutical industry. As a corollary, their work is probably useful to people designing quantum computers.

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Sorry, Pete. The Nobel Committee doesn't issue 'em posthumously.

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Gillian

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Gillianren. I know, but things change, times change, people change, and sometimes even long standing policies do. It took hundreds of years for the Church to apologize to the heirs of Galileo...perhaps the Nobel committee
will learn a lesson there. To me, it remains the most conspicuous oversight in the history of science. The distance scale of the universe swayed on her work. Pete.

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If we're going to talk posthumour Oscars (which I don't think will ever happen), let's talk 'em. Rosalind Franklin.

But hey, with the number of living people out there, I don't think the Nobels'll switch to posthumous. Besides, what would Rosalind Franklin do with the money?

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

Isn't that enough?

Sorry, i forgot to say nobel prize in physics.

I can only agree that dead scientists should have the possibility to win, and then they could grant the money to his/her family. But this would of course give a big disadvantage to today's scientists. Guess it will be hard winning the noble prize if you have to beat both Einstein for his relativity and Newton for everything he has done for science.

But let's start all over again.
Next year noble prize in physics for living scientists? Please add a small text telling why you think he/her should have the noble prize in physics.

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I think it's good that they don't award them to dead people, in the same way that it's good that they don't give the Fields medal to people over 40. Prizes like that are great because they encourage people to tackle the hard research problems. I mean, sure, no one goes and does research specifically to win a Nobel. But it's just a little extra thing that might push someone from doing research that is easy and safe (and not so useful) into doing something really cutting edge.

For physics... I was going to pick Lyman Spitzer, but found out he was already dead. Vera Rubin, maybe? Especially since dark matter was actually "observed" this year....

Nanotubes are big these days (heh heh), so maybe someone in that field, though I don't know any of the names.

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Well, I don't know much about physics, so I've got no names, but let me add this to the discussion of why dead people don't get Nobels--if live people get it, the money can go into their research, and we'll learn more.

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

Like the case of Prof. Josephson?

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"Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?" - Hobbes (Calvin and Hobbes)

"It's all about context!" - Vince Noir (The Mighty Boosh)

"I've never heard of such a brutal and shocking injustice that I cared so little about!" - Zapp Brannigan (Futurama)

"...because the logic of the lines traced from reality is as poor of aesthetic value as it is strict in consistency. " - Paolo Bozzi (Naive Physics - free translation)

Um, I don't know. Maybe sometimes all we learn is, "Wow, that person's really weird!" But the odds are better of legitimate scientific discovery if the person isn't dead, right?

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

Unless the discovery is that the spiritualists where right all along.

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And if someone channeling Rosalind Franklin is making new discoveries, let that person get the Nobel!

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

Can we please get back to the names or do i have to start all over again with a new thread? Maybe we should have another thread in granting nobels to dead people

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Yes

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Well, and Kary Mullis, but I would still take those odds, given the track record of just John Bardeen. Give the prizes to the living, there's more of them that deserve it than are dead.

Excuse me, we are talking physicist only But i would still say Newton would deserve one

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A couple of other candidates for the physics prize: http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2...-franklin.html

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Yeah, the neutrino is a nice discovery. I could well accept him as the next nobel prize taker.

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