Nobel Prizes for Physics Awarded to Smart People

bobol6 writes "The 2002 Nobel Prize for Physics is out. The $1 Million is split two ways: Riccardo Giacconi gets half for building the first X-Ray telescopes, and Raymond Davis, Jr and Masatoshi Koshiba split the other half. Davis invented the water tank neutrino detector, and Koshiba used a more sophisticated one to discover neutrino oscillation. The original press release is available . News articles can be found at Science Daily and The New York Times. (Free Blah di Blah)"

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Smart people eh?

[eggstasy]

Thank God. Wouldn't want any dumb people getting a Nobel prize, now would we? :)

Re:Smart people eh?

[Munra]

Did everyone hear about the farmer who won a Nobel Prize? Apparently he was out standing in his field.

Re:Smart people eh?

[Anonymous Coward]

That was not the Nobel prize, he got the Fields medal... ;-)

The Golden Globes, meanwhile, struggle on

[Brento]

In related news, the Golden Globes continue to be awarded to the opposite end of the academic spectrum, according to industry analysts. "Just look at Jennifer Connelly," said an unnamed source, pointing to this year's winner for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role. "Sure, she's easy on the eyes, but she couldn't tell a neutrino from her elbow. And don't even get me started on Sissy Spacek - the woman keeps trying to reserve the periodic table at restaurants."

Ron Howard has repeatedly gone on record that his work on 'A Beautiful Mind' puts him in the appropriate Smart People category, but that is still in dispute. Judges point to his work in Happy Days as proof.

In other news...

[kcbrown]

It was recently announced that Olympic gold medals are awarded to physically fit people, Baseball Hall of Fame entries are awarded to good baseball players, and the Nebula Award is given to really good science fiction authors.

People in the entire U.S., but especially the editors at Slashdot, were astounded and amazed by this announcement.

"I never even suspected" said chrisd, an editor at Slashdot.

The Dow rose 78 points today, largely in response to this announcement.

Ig Noble Prizes awarded a few days ago

[maxwells daemon]

The prizes are awarded in various categories, including physics and chemistry:

PHYSICS
Arnd Leike of the University of Munich, for demonstrating that beer froth obeys the mathematical Law of Exponential Decay. [REFERENCE: "Demonstration of the Exponential Decay Law Using Beer Froth," Arnd Leike, European Journal of Physics, vol. 23, January 2002, pp. 21-26.]

http://www.improb.com/ig/ig-pastwinners.html#ig2 00 2

Re:title : dumbest ever

[spakka]

do give us an example sometime of nobel prizes being awarded to dumb people.

Ask again after the Peace prize is announced Thursday...

Re:Richard Feynman used to boast. . .

[Anonymous Coward]

You don't need to be a genius to discover new things, just accident prone.

Re:title : dumbest ever

[BluBrick]

Sure, Marie Curie... TWICE!

From this site comes this gem.

"[Curie], who handles daily a particle of radium more dangerous than lightning, was afraid when confronted by the necessity of appearing before the public.""--Stéphane Lauzanne, editor-in-chief of Le Matin

Note: Not the stage fright, but the daily handling of radium (considering she was probably the most informed person in the world on the safety or otherwise of radium!)

Of course, I could be applying my early 21st century knowledge to her early 20th century situation.

Highly intelligent? Yeah, sure!

Dumb? Absolutely!