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That didnt stop the flow of Nobels For work done after 1970 - optical tweezers,laser cooling, quantum hall, superres microscopy, quantum dots (NP 2023) Not to
by gsf_emergency_6 11mo ago
That didnt stop the flow of Nobels
For work done after 1970 - optical tweezers,laser cooling, quantum hall, superres microscopy, quantum dots (NP 2023)
Not to forget Shor and Grover (1990s!)
Holmdel had the antenna of Penzias/Wilson
For me, this marked the end of Bell Labs (Murray Hill):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sch%C3%B6n_scandal#Beginning_of_fame https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sch%C3%B6n_scandal#Beginning_o...
Not sure what the bottleneck was:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/josipamajic/2025/11/19/science-is-bottlenecked-by-institutions-not-talent/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/josipamajic/2025/11/19/science-...
- j2kun 11mo agoI guess you have to read a lot into what the OP means by the italicized "the." I read it as a question of the size and scale of working groups vis-a-vis the scale of the impact.
- gsf_emergency_6 11mo agoAh right. The D in R&D, Deployment , was the thing that made Bell Labs special. Universities diluted the later Nobel credit but it was org-magic at Bell (Labs) that got break-through tech out.