This was the most obscene Nobel Prize of all time. They were completely swept away by the AI boom, and gave this ridiculous prize completely unrelated to Physics.
- Nobel Foundation:Ciro Santilli:
Did you know that models for machine learning were based on equations from physics?
Nice try but the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics still isn't about Physics.
- academia.stackexchange.com/questions/214109/is-there-a-reason-why-the-nobel-prize-in-physics-2024-is-awarded-to-a-computer-s
- lamarr-institute.org/blog/thoughts-physics-nobel-prize-2024
- www.reddit.com/r/AskPhysics/comments/1fz27m5/nobel_prize_2024/ User ervexHublot comments
Nobel prize sponsored by Nvidia
- x.com/skdh/status/1843675220433088598
Official announcement: www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2023/summary/
Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 explained by Parth G
. Source. Quick intro. Notably missing is a clearer discussion of the applications.This one took a while! Major developments were from the 70s! Perhaps it took the Internet revolution to make its importance clear.
This was so hot (no pun intended) and reproducible that the prize was awarded one year after discovery. Quite rare in those days already.
The key initial quantum electrodynamics experiments:
Early electron diffraction experiment from 1927 that drastically confirmed the matter wave hypothesis.
Discovery of:
- the positron by Carl David Anderson
- he cosmic rays by Victor Francis Hess
To Ernest Lawrence for the cyclotron.
Niels Bohr for the Bohr model.
Einstein for the theoretical explanation of the photoelectric effect from 1905, notably published as on a Heuristic Viewpoint Concerning the Production and Transformation of Light by Einstein (1905).
Not only did this open the way for X-ray crystallography, it more fundamentally clarified the nature of X-rays as being electromagnetic radiation, and helped further establish the atomic theory.
Pieter Zeeman for the Zeeman effect.
