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If LK-99 is true, Nobel Prize should make an exception for all the authors.
by est 3y ago
If LK-99 is true, Nobel Prize should make an exception for all the authors.
- jeffwass 3y agoWhy does this particular discovery merit an exception, but every other Nobel does not?
- r2_pilot 3y agoPerhaps with all the lower-hanging scientific fruit now getting more scarce, it makes sense to start allowing for a larger number of contributors to be recognized, even if they don't necessarily share in the prize money. Why not start such a new tradition when such a practical and wide-ranging technology comes into play? (assuming this is eventually validated)
- calderknight 3y agowould then make sense to award the prize less frequently
- rapsey 3y agoBecause if true it will be the most important discovery of this century?
- calderknight 3y agoI'm not sure about that. This is going to be a crazy century.
- concordDance 3y agoThe most important discovery of the century will probably be whatever finally lets us make human level AI.
- curiousObject 3y agoThat may be the last science Nobel awarded to a human
- Knee_Pain 3y ago[flagged]
- fbdab103 3y agoFun thought experiment, but I would probably go with something like the Haber Process to create ammonia. Enormous industrial applications which led to a boon in fertilizer development and feeding of humanity.
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- psychphysic 3y agoArbitrary punishing rules of the Nobel prize is part of the fun of science. As far as I can tell either wise they'd have dropped all these insane rules ages ago.
- Sharlin 3y agoWould be interesting if the rule were dropped given that in some fields like particle physics a paper may have dozens of authors…