In that light, here's my suggestion: After honoring Roger Penrose last year, who, don't get me wrong, certainly deserved any prestigious award, he's still much more of a mathematician, so something like the Fields Medal might have been much more fitting, even back when he was young enough to fit their profile. But nevermind, Ed Witten got that one, one of the most intimidating theoretical pysicists you might imagine, and not a mathematician.
So this is the second year in a row where the Nobel for physics didn't go to a physicist. Maybe the reason is simply that physicists have stopped making progress. There is just nothing to award for, so of course the commitee reached out to adjacent professions. It's either that or not award the prize at all!
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#nobelprize Twitterで相互だった尊敬する翻訳家(斎藤真理子さん)が日本への紹介におおいにかかわっている作家がノーベル文学賞を……
Han Kang, Whose ‘The Vegetarian’ Was Made Into a Film, Wins Nobel Prize for Literature
#Arts #Lifestyle #International #NobelPrize
It's time to get out my #WomenInTranslation thread and remind you of this recommendation for Han Kang's "The Vegetarian"
https://mastodon.social/@vicgrinberg/112616745554540795
(Quiet a number of other authors in this thread would also deserve or have deserved the prize. But I'm also happy about this particular choice of winner.)
RT @NobelPrize: BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Chemistry with one half to…
RT @miraikan: はじまりました!
ニコニコ生放送
「科学コミュニケーターと発表の瞬間を迎えよう!
ノーベル化学賞 」
本日10月9日(水)は19:00まで放送予定です!
https://t.co/8tDNo7XvOJ
#ノーベル賞 #NobelPrize ht…
A minority of folks are saying that this year's #physics #NobelPrize fits. Help me understand that perspective.
I'm usually interested in the #NobelPrize announcements, specifically in the sciences. The #physics one this year disappointed me. If the most groundbreaking work in physics is on machine learning, I feel confident in saying the field has lost its way. Where are the discoveries? Where are the fundamental-nature-of-the-universe results?
To see why #JohnHopfield shared in this year’s physics #NobelPrize, you can do what he did in the early ’80s and build a simple hardware neural network, using the children’s electronics toy SnapCircuits. Here are the instructions. https://nautil.us/build-your-own-artificial-neural-network-its-easy-237976/
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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Physics to John J. Hopfiel…
RT @miraikan: はじまりました!
ニコニコ生放送 「科学コミュニケーターと
発表の瞬間を迎えよう! ノーベル物理学賞 」
本日10月8日(火)は19:00 まで放送予定です!
https://t.co/0SSNhLbtJz
@johncarlosbaez May I also draw your attention to @philipcball 's book How Life Works which covers Ambros' work in the RNA chapter early in the latest book. It's another fine example of how the #NobelPrize for Medicine has been awarded for Chemical work. <ducks> https://how-life-works.philipball.co.uk
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The 2024 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for the disc…
16 #NobelPrize-winning #economists signed a letter warning the re-election of #Trump would ‘reignite’ #inflation, harm the US #economy & lead to higher #prices for #consumers.
Joseph Stiglitz & other #NobelLaureates say Trump threatens #US’s standing in the world.
In the letter released Tues, the economists said that the #Republican candidate would stoke #instability & revive high inflation w/his “fiscally irresponsible budgets”.
#BidenHarris2024
https://www.axios.com/2024/06/25/nobel-prize-winners-biden-economy-trump-inflation
#NowReading2024 I WILL WRITE TO AVENGE MY PEOPLE by Annie Ernaux via @fitzcarraldoeds translated by Alison L Strayer & Sophie Lewis
#Books #Bookstodon #BookMastodon #LiteratureNobelPrize #NobelPrize @bookstodon