
No, No Nobel: How to Lose the Prize: Brian Keating on Scientific American's Science Talk (#328)
Into the Impossible With Brian Keating
The Loss of Prestige of the Nobel Prize
"I'm pessimistic that anybody in a position to act on them will until a day comes, perhaps, when the prize seems to be losing its prestige," he says. "It's because of this almost, you know, idolatrous respect that we hold the Nobel Prize in for." He was inducted into the National Society of Black Physicists as an honorary member.
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