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#137 – Alex Filippenko: Supernovae, Dark Energy, Aliens & the Expanding Universe
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Nobel Prize for the Development of Physical Cosmology
Some argue that the Nobel Prize has been diluted to because if you look at Roger Penrose, you can make an argument that he should get the prize by himself. One could make the case that in 2016 when Mayar and K. Lowe's won the discovery of the first exoplanet, 51B Pegasi, well, there was a fellow at Penn State who found a planet orbiting a pulsar three years preceding 1995. And they could have given it to him as the third person instead of to Jim Peebles for the development of what's called physical cosmology. I would claim some other people were pretty important in that development as well. So there's a lot of controversy.
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