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Sport/Media are ripe with awards and top personalities are paid a salary directly proportional to their recognition. Science powers the whole world, yet scient
by gutnor 9y ago
Sport/Media are ripe with awards and top personalities are paid a salary directly proportional to their recognition.
Science powers the whole world, yet scientist receives a very minimal recognition for it, either in salary or prizes. Nobel Prizes are basically the only way that scientists achieve a bit of that.
- jessriedel 9y agoThis is because most people care about pop musicians much more than about scientists, regardless of lip service to the contrary. You can't make them care by creating more awards. There are already an uncountable number of awards in physics (e.g., the Dirac medal, the Sakurai prize, the Wolf prize, the Newton medal, the Breakthrough prize, etc., etc.).