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This is quite interesting. Since it's more money than the Nobel, it seems like it has a shot at becoming more prestigious.
by lacker 14y ago
This is quite interesting. Since it's more money than the Nobel, it seems like it has a shot at becoming more prestigious.
- tikhonj 14y agoPrizes like that are prestigious because of history and because everybody knows about them. I don't think the money attached to the prize has as big of an effect as the history. For a concrete example, the Fields Medal is better known than the Abel Prize despite the fact that it only comes with $15,000 to the Abel Prize's ~$1m.
- henrikschroder 14y agoThe Nobel prizes have been awarded for over a century now, and the main purpose of the Nobel Foundation is to ensure that they can keep giving out the prizes forever. I'm confident that the Nobel prizes will still be around a hundred years from now. Will this Fundamental Physics Prize also be?