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		dekhn on Oct 8, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to John Hopfield an... That 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-behin...)

spullara on Oct 8, 2024 [–]

That 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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