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Re:Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded to Bertozzi, Meldal, and... by wholinator2 on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @08:59AM (#33094956)
It can sometimes take a long time to get a prize awarded. Like I believe Einstein didn't get his prize for years and years after he discovered Relativity and even when they awarded it to him it was only for the photo electric effect, which while important, wasn't perceived as his largest contribution
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Re:Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded to Bertozzi, Meldal, and... by btilly on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @12:13PM (#33097403)
He didn't get it for relativity in part because of a well-known philosopher.

See https://nautil.us/this-philosopher-helped-ensure-there-was-n... for the story.

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Re:Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded to Bertozzi, Meldal, and... by dekhn on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @12:33PM (#33097685)
"only" for the photoelectric effect?

That was one of the most fundamental scientific discoveries (well, explanation for an unexpected failure of theory to predict experiment) of all time. In particular, the idea of wave packets replacing particle and wave representations was quite helpful.

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