Scientists who never won a Nobel Prize
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Scientists who never won a Nobel Prize
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Re: Scientists who never won a Nobel Prize
#2Interesting list. After all, there is also the opposite case, where it is difficult to understand why a certain prize was awarded. I once attended a lecture by Nobel Laureate Richard Ernst, where he presented a good dozen Nobel Prizes for which there was a corresponding Russian publication, which had been published earlier than the honored work.
Re: Scientists who never won a Nobel Prize
#3For me, the most notable absence is Gandhi for Nobel for peace.
Re: Scientists who never won a Nobel Prize
#4You wouldn't believe how proper, non-racist and balanced this comment was before being seized upon by a mob, half of whom have deleted their messages now.
Lesson to fellow Europeans: Don't ever comment on anything that involves race. The Americans are going through something special at the moment and they're lashing out at pretty much anything.
I wish I could delete this comment, but alas I can not.
Re: Scientists who never won a Nobel Prize
#5"Poincaré was nominated a record 51 times for the Nobel Prize but never won."
Damn !
Re: Scientists who never won a Nobel Prize
#6You wouldn't believe how proper, non-racist and balanced this comment was before being seized upon by a mob, half of whom have deleted their messages now. Lesson to fellow Europeans: Don't ever comment on anything that involves race. The Americans are going through something special at the moment and they're lashing out at pretty much anything. I wish I could delete this comment, but alas I can not.
My comment no longer seems to have any relevance to the parent, which was edited. I do like to point out this (in)famous case though:
Nate Lewis was denied the prize in Chemistry by being the most junior in a group of four (the prize can be shared at most three ways).
Re: Scientists who never won a Nobel Prize
#7Sticking Hawking and Tesla in with Bose and Poincare is .... eccentric. It's not a popularity contest.
Fun fact: one of Bose's grandsons worked as a bartender at Triple Rock in Berkeley for a while.
Re: Scientists who never won a Nobel Prize
#8It is easy to look at this list and say gender and ethnicity played a role (which wouldn't be surprising particularly in that era). But five people on the list are white men. Physicists were more likely to be white men (at least in those times). So no matter what list you make of physicists, they will end up on that list. My point is, it is not possible to deduce any bias from such a list. For any coveted prize there are many well deserving people that don't get it simply because there's only one prize to be awarded per year and there's no sure and objective way to know if one who got it was indeed more deserving than the others who didn't.
Re: Scientists who never won a Nobel Prize
#9For me, the most notable absence is Gandhi for Nobel for peace.
Technically this is a list of top greatest scientists who never won a Nobel Prize.
Re: Scientists who never won a Nobel Prize
#10It is easy to look at this list and say gender and ethnicity played a role (which wouldn't be surprising particularly in that era). But five people on the list are white men. Physicists were more likely to be white men (at least in those times). So no matter what list you make of physicists, they will end up on that list. My point is, it is not possible to deduce any bias from such a list. For any coveted prize there…
> My point is, it is not possible to deduce any bias from such a list.
Is it? In at least two (three?) of those cases the male colleagues were recognized with the Nobel prize and their female colleagues were not.