Timeline for What are the main contributions to the mathematics of general relativity by Sir Roger Penrose, winner of the 2020 Nobel prize?
Current License: CC BY-SA 4.0
12 events
| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 9, 2020 at 16:09 | vote | accept | zeraoulia rafik | ||
| Oct 8, 2020 at 10:27 | comment | added | Carl-Fredrik Nyberg Brodda | @user1504 That is true for all prizes except for the Nobel Prize in literature (and peace). Alfred Nobel wrote in his will "... en del den som inom litteraturen har produceradt det utmärktaste i idealisk rigtning", which roughly translates as "one part [is given to] he who in literature has produced the most excellent in an idealistic/idealised direction". This can refer to a body of work, or a single work. The other specifications in his will, however, directly reference a single invention, discovery, or improvement. | |
| Oct 8, 2020 at 1:04 | comment | added | user1504 | @HollisWilliams Not quite true. His citation is "for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect." | |
| Oct 7, 2020 at 22:11 | comment | added | David Roberts♦ | @HollisWilliams or special relativity, or Brownian motion! | |
| Oct 7, 2020 at 19:19 | history | edited | Mirco A. Mannucci | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added 1954 characters in body
|
| Oct 7, 2020 at 18:20 | comment | added | Hollis Williams | For example, Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize only for his work on the photoelectric effect, and it had nothing at all to do with general relativity. | |
| Oct 7, 2020 at 17:27 | comment | added | Timothy Chow | @MircoA.Mannucci : I have no objection to anything you say here, except that technically it doesn't answer the question posed by zeraoulia rafik, which specifically mentions general relativity. | |
| Oct 7, 2020 at 13:56 | comment | added | Mirco A. Mannucci | @user1504 I agree with you 100%. I do not think that most of the organizers even have an idea of the extent of Sir Penrose 's contribution to mathematical physics. This Nobel is exactly the "Black Hole Nobel", as you said. But you are wrong about my answer: I did not try to suggest that the Nobel was for his work on Twistors, spin networks, etc. However, people in the know DO know about Penrose's amazing achievements, and they do congratulate this man's award. | |
| Oct 7, 2020 at 13:49 | comment | added | user1504 | This post seems to imply that the Nobel Prize is a recognition of Penrose's larger body of work. It is not. Nobel prizes do not work on the same principle as Fields Medals. They're given in recognition of specific scientific achievements, not for general achievement. (The peculiar exception to this is Einstein's prize, where they tiptoed around the real reason for giving it to him.) This prize is the "Black Holes are Real" prize. That's all. Penrose's 'inevitable singularity' theorems helped the scientifc community's accept black holes as real things. | |
| Oct 7, 2020 at 3:41 | comment | added | David Roberts♦ | And from spin networks, implicitly, string diagrams! | |
| Oct 7, 2020 at 0:30 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Todd Trimble | ||
| Oct 6, 2020 at 22:12 | history | answered | Mirco A. Mannucci | CC BY-SA 4.0 |