As scientific prizes, such as a breakthrough prize and a prize of turing, are compared with Nobel scientific prizes?Credit: Yomiuri Shimbun via AP/Alamy
Nobel prizes are the most famous awards in science – and for many – the final icon of superiority and achievements in the field of research. But in the past few years, a flurry of other prizes has surfaced – in some cases, to fill in the gaps in the subject areas covered by Nobels, and in others, to offer more financial rewards. With the Nobel prizes that will be declared next week, how are these prizes compared with each other?
Although these new awards (see “Prize money”) are becoming more and more significant, not one of them coincides with the Nobels, at least for now, according to the biotechnologist Robert Langer at the Massachusetts Technological Institute (MIT) at Cambridge, who was awarded the Awards in the field of breakthrough sciences, the Kuvota Prize and the Kavlius Prize. “In my opinion, no one is at this level,” he says.
Sarah Saiger, scientist of planets at the Massachusetts Technological Institute and winner of 2024 Astrophysicsagrees. “Other awards want to catch up,” she says. “But now the Nobel Prize is so far ahead of others. It was the first, and I just don’t think that something is competing. ”
Many researchers who shared many researchers demonstrated in how other awards lent the Nobel nickname – for example, AM Turing Award, are often called the Nobel Prize of Computer Science. Others, such as a wolf prize in chemistry, are considered as good predictors for Nobels.
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Nevertheless, the prizes are left by many scientific areas in the cold, such as mathematics, technology and science of climate. “There are no Nobel Prize for many remarkable discoveries,” says Sieger, citing an example of mathematics and meteorologist Edward Lorenz, whose work The clarified theory of chaosOtherwise, it is known as the effect of a butterfly. History also indicates that scientists with the best chance of winning the Nobel Prize Men from Europe or North AmericaField
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Over the years, rewards have been created to fill in the gaps. Some also offer much more money than Nobel prizes. For example, breakthrough prizes based in 2012 offer winners in mathematics, fundamental physics and life science, the largest award of 3 million US dollars, although not without accusations of Borrowing the prestige of nobelThe field threshold for a million dollars is also found by Tang, Shaw, Toring, Kavli and Millenium prizes.
But not a single prize is impeccable. Researchers, as a rule, work in teams, and yet the majority of prizes, and not just nobels, single people for praise.
“Only a small part of the superiority taking place in academic circles is recognized in these prizes,” says the scientist -ecologist of Zahra Kalantari at the Royal Technological Institute KTH in Stockholm, which is the winner A number of planet PrizeField
