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History of Science & Technology Q&A (March 23, 2022)

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

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The History of the Nobel Prize

It had a, it was a, you know, the fact that it was being broadcast on British television tells, well, I don't know what it tells one, but a different, perhaps a different kind of programming than the one we'd normally find today. One of the cards was 'don't die or don't die too quickly' It pointed to the average time from a discovery being made to the prize being given - 30 years or something like this. In economics, it's almost like any economist I've ever heard of has got to know well prize sometime or another.

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