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The Nobel prize cannot go to a team so they have to pick individuals. This is true for many (most?) nobel prize awards. Consider for example the discovery of
by mhandley 2y ago
The Nobel prize cannot go to a team so they have to pick individuals. This is true for many (most?) nobel prize awards. Consider for example the discovery of gravity waves - the team that built and operated LIGO was huge, but they have to pick. This has commonly been the case since the inception of the prizes - the professor gets the prize, the PhD students and postdocs don't usually. Not saying this is right, but it's the way it is.
- elashri 2y agoFor gravitational waves discovery, Nobel prize went to the designers of the LIGO which was done long before we actually built it. The example that will fit more your idea would be Carlo Rubbia who got the award in 1984 for leading the CERN team who discovered the W and Z bosons. He did not have any contributions than leading the experiment that did it [1]. It is not like he designed or proposed the way we used to detect them. And the Nobel prize for higgs discovery went to theorists who proposed and predict it not the experimental physicists (thousands) who discovered it in 2012. [1] https://home.cern/science/experiments/ua1 https://home.cern/science/experiments/ua1
- erk__ 2y agoIt is only the Peace Prize that may be given to more than 3 people, which have been done 30 times: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/lists/nobel-prize-awarded-organizations/ https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/lists/nobel-prize-awarded-...