Well, it's possible to wait 50 years, and still NOT have realized the full impact of your work in society Sometimes science/engineering turns out like that e.

Well, it's possible to wait 50 years, and still NOT have realized the full impact of your work in society Sometimes science/engineering turns out like that e.g. I think Claude Shannon is like that -- his impact continues to rise, and he's viewed as more important after he died He apparently never won a Turing Award or Nobel Prize, probably because there was and is no Nobel in computer science https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Shannon#Awards_and_honors_list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Shannon#Awards_and_hono... So I guess I mean "drawing attention to something that would have not otherwise had attention", and based on the consensus of people working in the field