> that's why he wasn't awarded the NP for RT. Too many felt that "bending space and time" was obviously too absurd to survive further scrutiny.
> Don't forget that Einstein's position to Quantum Theory was comparable. He didn't deny the results but opposed the statistical model. "God does not play dice" ! ;)

Curiously, despite Quantum Theory out-weirding Relativity, the 1932 Nobel Prize was awarded to Werner Heisenberg for the creation of Quantum mechanics! Maybe the general tolerance of weirdness within the Nobel committee had softened by then.

Heisenberg was nominated for the Nobel prize by ... Einstein! ... which I felt showed great character, given his deeply held "God does not play dice" views. The infamous Bohr-Einstein debates, though insanely intense at times, were also carried out in great spirit by both men.

Though Erwin Schrodinger also won a Nobel prize for his famous wave equation (developed during a romantic tryst on a skiing holiday), I was disappointed the committee didn't award him another for inventing Schrodinger's Cat. :) BTW, Schrodinger and Einstein shared a similar extreme discomfort with QM and seemed to be allies during the many heated QM debates of the 1930s.

My favourite Nobel prize story though is J J Thomson winning the 1906 Nobel prize for proving the electron is a particle and his son G P Thomson winning the 1937 Nobel prize for proving it's a wave! :)

This was the golden age of physics LanX and all played out in your backyard! As a physics nut, I'm extremely envious because I'd love to visit Germany one day to tour all these historic sites ... including Heligoland where Heisenberg formulated Quantum Mechanics -- have you ever been there? I find it interesting that the two biggest QM breakthroughs, by Heisenberg and Schrodinger, were both made while on holiday.

In reply to Re^6: Organizational Culture (Part VII): Science by eyepopslikeamosquito
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