The Nobel Prize delay
Physics and Society
2014-05-29 v1 Digital Libraries
Abstract
The time lag between the publication of a Nobel discovery and the conferment of the prize has been rapidly increasing for all disciplines, especially for Physics. Does this mean that fundamental science is running out of groundbreaking discoveries?
Cite
@article{arxiv.1405.7136,
title = {The Nobel Prize delay},
author = {Francesco Becattini and Arnab Chatterjee and Santo Fortunato and Marija Mitrović and Raj Kumar Pan and Pietro Della Briotta Parolo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.7136},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
Extended version of Nature 508, 186 (2014) http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v508/n7495/full/508186a.html ; http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/magazine/physicstoday/news/10.1063/PT.5.2012