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How do you give the discovery of the Higgs a Nobel prize? Particularly in experimental particle physics, the ability to give a nobel prize (even after discounti
by SoftwareMaven 14y ago
How do you give the discovery of the Higgs a Nobel prize? Particularly in experimental particle physics, the ability to give a nobel prize (even after discounting grad students :) seems impossible today. The number of people who have to be part of any "discovery" is huge. It seems like the prize would then become the prize for who had the most political (office and governmental) sway on the team.
- tomkinstinch 14y agoThey can be given to groups, as in the case of the 2007 Peace Prize: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2007/ http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2007/
- cshimmin 14y agoA colleague of mine at CERN once told me that if they ever get a nobel prize, it will be a peace prize. The number of nations and institutions brought together for science is quite amazing!