History of Science & Technology Q&A (March 23, 2022)
The Stephen Wolfram Podcast
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The Evolution of the Nobel Prize
With some exceptions, the Prizes have been more and less interesting in recent years. I think there was long kind of a belief that it can't really be a pure theoretical prize. And for a while, it was like everybody who invented a kind of potable detector eventually won an Nobel Prize. But now we're often the names of the people and not as widely known as the instruments they've created.
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