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Whom was me and others in the physics department I was associated with. You can find more discussions on the prize on the not even wrong blog https://www.math.c

• protomolecule 6y ago
  Okey, let me quote another post by Peter Woit from 2016: "One thing that strikes me about these things is that the situation with the physics prize has changed dramatically since the first three years, when they went mostly to string theorists. Having a heavily promoted much larger cash prize than the Nobel, given largely to theorists for ideas many of which haven’t worked out, raised obvious questions about the wisdom of the whole thing. The last two years have seen a 180 degree turn, with the prizes going to experimentalists for successful experimental results. Even better, there has been an unusual emphasis on making an award to entire experimental collaborations, not just a small number of “great men” identified as collaboration leaders or spokespersons. I don’t know of any other major prizes that do this. The lack of an experimental Nobel for the Higgs discovery is one reflection of that problem, it’s great that the Breakthrough Prize people are doing something about it."[0] Basically, we have two criticized recent physics awards (2019 special and 2017) and several in the very beginning. That still doesn't qualify as 'mostly'. [0] http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=8088 http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=8088