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Could someone please ELI5 to me why hasn't Schwarzschild been awarded Nobel prize? I read that his work played a big role in discovery of Black Hole and the concept in general. Heck, his name even appears no less than 19 times in the Nobel Committee's article [1]!!
[1] https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2020/10/advanced-physicsp...
I'm not a physicist but have been reading up on this topic (gravity, general relativity etc.,). Could someone please ELI5 to me why hasn't Schwarzschild been awarded Nobel prize? I read that his work played a big role in discovery of Black Hole and the concept in general. Heck, his name even appears no less than 19 times in the Nobel Committee's article [1]!! [1] https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2020/10/advanced-ph…
On that subject, “Einstein’s War” is an interesting read on the interplay between WWI and the development of general relativity.
I'm not a physicist but have been reading up on this topic (gravity, general relativity etc.,). Could someone please ELI5 to me why hasn't Schwarzschild been awarded Nobel prize? I read that his work played a big role in discovery of Black Hole and the concept in general. Heck, his name even appears no less than 19 times in the Nobel Committee's article [1]!! [1] https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2020/10/advanced-ph…
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Back in the day they each led research to detect irrefutable evidence of it. This isn't anything new and groundbreaking.
I think that's rather unfair. The measurements are still ongoing with ever-increasing accuracy. In 2018 they managed to record the closest approach of the star S2, measuring a velocity of 7000 km/s at its maximum. This was after mapping the full 16 year orbit. I know that Genzel is still actively researching this topic with his group, see e.g. https://www.mpe.mpg.de/7433286/news20200416
Fun fact: looks like we're both in MPE (although I left two years ago).
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When I heard about this, I seriously thought we just only discovered Sagittarius A* this year and that I must have fucked up my memories. Thanks for the clarification!
The Penrose-Hawking singularity theorems go back 55 years to work starting in 1965. No joke. This has be to near a record in time lag between the work the Nobel committee recognized and when that work was first published. Better late than never I guess (but too late for Hawking, as has been mentioned elsewhere..) EDIT - a detailed analysis: https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.5.2012/full...
Too late for Hawking indeed, he could've very well been one of the winners today.
Where can I learn more about these ingenious math models in a way that an adult can understand, but one that's been out of math for a while? Is there a good YouTube video?
I'm searching but it's coming up with many hour-long lectures by Roger Penrose that seem unrelated to the specifics of thise prize
Monitoring the Morphology of M87* in 2009-2017 with the Event Horizon Telescope
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.11842
And when all is said and done I believe his insights into the Quantum Correlates of Human Consciousness may end up being the most fruitful
Consciousness in the Universe: Neuroscience, Quantum Space-Time Geometry and Orch OR Theory
https://web.archive.org/web/20120616045402/http://www.quantu...
Very much deserved, but why does it take so long to award this prize? Clearly they could have valued this research 20 years ago?