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I've never heard that it had to be tied to experimental discoveries. For example, Feynman got the prize for Feynman diagrams, path integrals and QED calculation
by spullara 2y ago
I've never heard that it had to be tied to experimental discoveries. For example, Feynman got the prize for Feynman diagrams, path integrals and QED calculations. None of that directly tied to experimental work.
It has definitely been awarded for both theoretical and experimental contributions throughout its history. Many theoretical physicists have received the prize for their conceptual breakthroughs, even without direct experimental verification at the time.
- Waterluvian 2y agoInteresting. Those are essentially inventions, not discoveries?
- bigbacaloa 2y ago[dead]
- dekhn 2y agoThat was the reasoning given when Einstein won his prize for the photoelectric effect, not relativity (although the reasons were actually fairly complicated: https://www.advancedsciencenews.com/the-dramatic-story-behind-general-relativitys-nobel-prize-snub/ https://www.advancedsciencenews.com/the-dramatic-story-behin...)
- spullara 2y agoThat was relatively early and it had clearly changed later when they started giving folks like Feynman the prize for something that wasn't at all experiment related.
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