Comments by "GH1618" (@GH-oi2jf) on "" video.

  1. How about specializing in forensic pathology? The patients are easy to get along with.
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  2. Oh, please.
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  3. Gorbachev (member of the CPSU) was awarded the Peace Prize. Le Duc Tho, a founder of the IndoChinese CP, was awarded the Peace Prize (he declined it). Henri La Fontaine, a member of the Belgian Socialist Party, was awarded the Peace Prize.
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  4. Kissinger and Le Duc Tho received the Peace Prize for negotiating an end to the Vietnam War. That is a criterion for receiving it.
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  5. Her channel, her choice.
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  6. Pauling received the Nobel in Chemistry, not Physics. He also received a Nobel Peace Prize. He did become a bit eccentric in his later years, but he definitely deserved the Chemistry prize. The Linus Pauling Institute continues at the University of Oregon (correction: Oregon State University in Corvallis), with a broader mission than Pauling's original focus, and they receive support from the National Institutes of Health, so they do have some credibility, it seems.
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  7. The Peace Prize expresses the hopes of the Peace Prize committee for peace. Obama did not ask for it, or even claim he deserved it. As President, obviously he could not allow it to influence his judgment in how he should perform the duties of his office.
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  8. That statue was unveiled in 2013, more than 20 years after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
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  9. Without patents, inventors would have their ideas stolen by the rich and powerful.
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  10. Not really. There are several Peace Prizes which are more controversial. People nowadays just interject their politics into the matter. Obama set an example for how to handle receiving an unexpected Peace Prize. He made no personal use of the prize money; instead, he appointed a committee to distribute it.
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  11. Kissinger received the Peace Prize for negotiating the end of the Vietnam War. That is an explicit criterion for awarding the prize. Obama recieved the Peace Prize “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples." (quoted from the Nobel web site)
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  12. I remember those days, being in the first generation of children to receive it. People lined up at the clinic to get vaccinated. There were no anti-vaccine nuts then.
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  13. Dr. Jonas Salk never received the Nobel, although he received many other awards and there are awards bearing his name. His Presidential Medal of Freedom is better than a Nobel. And, by the way, he never profited from the Salk vaccine.
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  14. "Vilify"?
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  15. There is a medal named for him, which is a greater honor.
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  16. I don't agree. Franklin did not solve the structure of DNA; Crick and Watson did. They looked at her diffraction pattern, which suggested that they were on the right track, that's all. Franklin is mentioned in their initial paper on the subject, and she is well-known today. Edit: And they certainly aren't responsible for her untimely death. Edit: And, by the way, both Franklin and Wilkins published a paper in the same issue of Nature that contained the first Watson/Crick paper.
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  17. A further postscript: Watson's book is well-known, and he was justly criticized for his characterization of Franklin. Crick's account is less well-known. It is contained in his memoir What Mad Pursuit, published 20 years after The Double Helix, and is much better reading.
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  18. Von Neumann was a mathematician. There is no Nobel for that. He was the first to be awarded the Fermi medal, and he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, among several other honors. More than one award is named for him. He didn't need a Nobel to achieve recognition.
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  19.  @jloiben12 — Of course. And your point is?
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  20. That isn't quite true. Public companies often do things that hurt shareholder value. As long as the boards aren't intending to hurt shareholder value, they are in the clear. Mere stupidity is not a crime.
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  21. Her partner (who received the Nobel for Chemistry) was Otto Hahn. Meitner and Frisch are mentioned in the Nobel page for Hahn.
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  22. Nominations mean nothing. Other vile people have been nominated.
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  23.  @zacox — You are right. I don't know how I made that bonehead error.
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  24. She did mention Pauling. He wasn't that wacky, though, and Linus Pauling Institute is still operating 30 years after his demise.
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  25. Economics? Why not just say so instead of making people look it up?
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  26. I have degrees in Computer Science. I disagree.
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  27.  @michaeldebellis4202 — There is the Turing Award. It seems to me that an award granted by computer scientists is more meaningful than a Nobel would be. Most of the important computer scientists have received it. For some reason, Brinch Hansen seems to have been overlooked.
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  28. That is not the reason the Peace Prize was awarded to Obama. You probably know that.
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  29. One criterion for receiving the Peace Prize is having negotiated an end to hostilities. That is the reason Kissinger received the prize, whatever his contribution to the war might have been.
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  30.  @dragoaus — I've read that he had a personal reason for not including mathematics. It doesn't matter, because the mathematicians have their own prize.
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  31. It isn't a cult of personality. Personality doesn't have anything to do with awarding a Nobel. I suppose an unlikeable person might be less likely to be nominated, but some genuinely unlikeable persons have received a Nopel Prise.
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  32. It was certainly Carlson's idea, but he needed help to develop the idea into a commercial product. That is true of most technological ideas, though.
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  33. I think the Nobel committees get it wrong sometimes. Penzias and Wilson shared half a Nobel prize for "discovering" the microwave background radiation. Actually, they stumbled over it by accident and didn't even know what they had found. Meanwhile, Gamow and his student, Alpher, who predicted it years earlier, got nothing.
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