The Nobel Prize is not in the Nobel's 'vision'

As Nobel's 'non -sighted ' areas increasingly make important contributions to life, the most prestigious international award structure is also changing.

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In the will to leave after his death, Alfred Nobel donated his entire property to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to establish a fund bearing his name. He wrote: ' The profit of the fund will be divided into 5 equal parts annually in the form of awards for the most devoted people, for the benefit of mankind in the previous year in Biology or Medicine. , Physics, Chemistry, Literature and Peace Prize . '

There is no prize for Mathematics (it has, and has been hypothesized) but there is no prize for Astronomy . Perhaps according to Nobel's view at that time, Astronomy also brought too little benefit and has not played an increasingly important role as it is today. Indeed astronomers in the past have done many meaningful things for humanity and deserve a Nobel prize.

The great astronomer Edwin Hubble.

In the first half of the twentieth century, the great astronomer Edwin Hubble had a lot of great innovations about the universe , which could be said to have revolutionized people's thinking about the vast and full space. the mystery right above our heads (which today everyone knows the giant telescope flying in orbit and one of the most important astronomy awards named after him).

Almost every year (after World War II) he was also the brightest candidate, but was conservatively defended by the "big hoods " in the Committee to dismiss it because 'the Nobel tool was not included in the will. '. Later, due to the pressure of scientists, even those who were awarded, they had to think again.

In 1953, the Commission's general intention was to win the prize for Hubble that year and the vote would take place on October 1 (to October 3), but three days earlier, September 28, 1953 he was suddenly died of a sudden pain. So Hubble missed the prize!

This is very similar to the recent case for Hubble's postpartum scientist, Ralph Steinman, the 2011 Nobel Prize in Medicine. Only ' small ', Ralph Steinman lost on September 30, just before the Committee voted to vote one day, they had not received the news that he had died of pancreatic cancer (but apparently when he called the family to inform him, the Committee knew him. could not get to Stockholm to win the prize again. Already, Mr. Steiman still enjoys this honor, though the Nobel Prize has never been a precedent for the dead.

Achievements in astronomy are more and more useful in life. (Illustration).

The event with Hubble astronomer, since 1953, has been officially noticed by astronomers (or cosmology or space science). But these scientists are often mixed in the name of 'astrophysicist' by adding nouns of physics, so that the Nobel tool can not stand out from the gold stream ?!

And since then, astrophysicists have formed a team of Nobelists increasingly crowded.

In 1967, Hans Bethe (1906-2005) was awarded the Nobel Prize for studies of energy production in stars.

In 1978, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson were awarded the 1978 Nobel Prize for millimeter radio observations combined with celestial radiation since the universe was formed. The results were checked again by the COBE satellite, made by two astronomers two decades later, John Mather and George Smoot.

In 1983, Chandrasekhar and William Fowler were awarded Nobel prizes for the theory of the inner activities of stars and the processes of nuclear change that led to the burning and transformation of the elements in them.

In 2002, Ray Davis was awarded the Nobel Prize for his contributions to X-ray Astronomy, along with Masatoshi Koshiba and Riccardo Giacconi - pioneers of neutron astronomy.

In 2006, John Mather and George Smoot were awarded the Nobel Prize for the discovery of black radiation, the type of cosmic background radiation that was believed to have arisen from the Big Bang (the big bang) when the universe was born.

Then this year, 2011, the Nobel Prize once again came to astronomers. Three scientists Saul Perlmutter, Brian Schmidt and Adam Riesse were awarded with new discoveries about the accelerated expansion of the universe.

As a result, since adding the field of Astronomy, Cosmology and Space Science, the number of Nobel Prize in Physics has been increasing.

Clearly, new discoveries have been opened in two ways: micro and macro. Macro is the science that we just mentioned, on a scale not only tens, millions but billions of years of light.