The hierarchy of countries winning Nobels in the sciences is shifting

Re:The hierarchy of countries winning Nobels in the sciences... by wslh on Saturday September 22, 2018 @02:52PM (#18047405)

This, there are experiments that cost millions of dollars just to build and they can fail and need many other costly experiments. Beyond this, it is true that some researchers can find theoretical research using only "pen and pencil... and computers".

OñAnother example about the former case (in computer science) is where a researcher can quickly build a team of a hundred post doc students to help in specific topics.

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Re:The hierarchy of countries winning Nobels in the sciences... by peoplewrong on Saturday September 22, 2018 @03:05PM (#18047469)

I don't think there are many (any) academic labs in CS with 100 post-docs.

also post docs arent students.

big engineering research efforts like that DO happen in industry though.

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Re:The hierarchy of countries winning Nobels in the sciences... by whatshisface on Saturday September 22, 2018 @03:21PM (#18047548)

There's a big difference between how much it costs to do research in CS and how much it costs to do research elsewhere. It costs $10^9/year to run the LHC.

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Re:The hierarchy of countries winning Nobels in the sciences... by peoplewrong on Saturday September 22, 2018 @09:03PM (#18048843)

the comment I am responding to is talking about computer science

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