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		meepmorp on Oct 8, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to John Hopfield an... Right! Einstein didn't get the Nobel because the theory of relativity is awesome, he got it after Eddington observed gravitational lensing during an eclipse, confirming a key prediction. Brilliant theorizing can be both brilliant and wrong.

kragen on Oct 8, 2024 [–]

Einstein got the Nobel Prize for his work on quantum physics, not relativity.

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