Interestingly, Economics wasn’t originally a prize awarded (and it seems isn’t “officially” a *Nobel* prize), and some of Nobel’s family have distanced themselves from that particular prize.
So there’s precedent for adding another prize, but the question becomes: does that honour the legacy of what Nobel intended? Does that even matter any more?
For what it’s worth, Physics is for a “discovery or invention” — so I can understand why this is the best of the current Nobel categories.
Anxious_cactus on
I honestly had no idea Math doesn’t have its own Nobel prize category yet, that’s oddly weird
Sufficient_Loss9301 on
Eh math makes sense but CS not really. Anyway that field doesn’t need to get its ego boner stroked anymore than it already is.
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Interestingly, Economics wasn’t originally a prize awarded (and it seems isn’t “officially” a *Nobel* prize), and some of Nobel’s family have distanced themselves from that particular prize.
So there’s precedent for adding another prize, but the question becomes: does that honour the legacy of what Nobel intended? Does that even matter any more?
For what it’s worth, Physics is for a “discovery or invention” — so I can understand why this is the best of the current Nobel categories.
I honestly had no idea Math doesn’t have its own Nobel prize category yet, that’s oddly weird
Eh math makes sense but CS not really. Anyway that field doesn’t need to get its ego boner stroked anymore than it already is.