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From what the Nobel committee says, the prize is for a who, not a what. And it's for excellence, not accidents. "The Nobel Prize is a celebration of excellenc
by stretchwithme 5y ago
From what the Nobel committee says, the prize is for a who, not a what. And it's for excellence, not accidents.
"The Nobel Prize is a celebration of excellence. The Nobel Prize is considered the most prestigious award in the world in its field. It is awarded to 'those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind'."
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- gwerbret 5y ago> And it's for excellence, not accidents. It so happens that many, many seminal discoveries in science are accidents. The discovery of the cosmic microwave background is probably one of the more popular examples of this, and certainly didn't get in the way of the discoverers winning the Nobel Prize in Physics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_microwave_background https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_microwave_background
- stretchwithme 5y agosure, but someone had to recognize what it was and do a lot of work beyond that accidental discovery to understand it make it usable. That work is not a series of accidents.