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Nobel Prizes for Physics Awarded to Smart People

Posted by chrisd on from the cowboyneal-prize-for-coolness dept.

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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  1. Re:title : dumbest ever by Hittite+Creosote · · Score: 3, Insightful
    "Nobel Peace prize awarded to ... er ... peaceful people".

    Peaceful? I bet it's not hard to find people who wouldn't describe Theodore Roosevelt ("No triumph of peace is quite so great as the supreme triumph of war"), Henry Kissinger or Yasser Arafat as peaceful...

  2. Fix IQ tests? by Gerry+Gleason · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Good grief! Stick with the first statement that it is a defective metric. Tinkering will not make it better, just different.

    Nobody thinks there is any point to a standard metric of 'beauty' or 'virtue', oh wait maybe they do ...