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[-] FlowVoid@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

The Nobel Prize is awarded after a lifetime of work, not the latest news.

The 2022 Nobel Prize in physics was awarded for describing the violation of Bell inequalities. The initial experiments were performed in the 80s and the results are "not news" to many current high school physics teachers.

[-] MHSJenkins@infosec.pub 2 points 1 month ago

That is not true for the Nobel Prize in Economics, which is not one of the five official Nobel Prizes.

[-] FlowVoid@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The prize in economic sciences is awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden, according to the same principles as for the Nobel Prizes that have been awarded since 1901.

[-] Hugohase@startrek.website 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Some critics argue that the prestige of the Prize in Economic Sciences derives in part from its association with the Nobel Prizes, an association that has often been a source of controversy. Among them is the Swedish human rights lawyer Peter Nobel, a great-grandnephew of Alfred Nobel.[40]

Nobel accuses the awarding institution of misusing his family's name, and states that no member of the Nobel family has ever had the intention of establishing a prize in economics.[41] He explained that "Nobel despised people who cared more about profits than society's well-being", saying that "There is nothing to indicate that he would have wanted such a prize", and that the association with the Nobel prizes is "a PR coup by economists to improve their reputation".[40]

[-] FlowVoid@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago

Why should anyone care what Nobel's descendants think?

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