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It's such a crime that Emmy Noether never got the Nobel Prize in physics. I wonder how many of the physics prizes were for discoveries that would never have hap
by woodandsteel 8y ago
It's such a crime that Emmy Noether never got the Nobel Prize in physics. I wonder how many of the physics prizes were for discoveries that would never have happened if not for Noether's theorem.
- ASipos 8y agoProblem is, the prize is usually awarded for experimental work, or for theoretical work whose predictions are validated by experiment. Noether's theorem is a purely mathematical result.