Talk:List of Nobel laureates

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[edit] Strange

Something funny's going on in chemistry in the mid 50s. Doesn't agree with Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Sluj 00:56, 11 December 2004

I agree. Can someone confirm that the chemistry in the mid 50s is correct, because I would think the Nobel Prize Site would be more corrrect. User:Jarchie 05:08, 23 April 2007

How about a template for Nobel Prize Laureates, which could be added to every person/organization? --Neoneo13 22:39, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

I think it is odd that Nobel laureate redirects here, but Nobel Laureate redirects to Nobel Prize. I would think they should go to the same place, probably here. --Steve-o 18:30, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Only one article should remain, Steve: the one with an uncapitalized "l". Extremely sexy 12:19, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
In fact, both should remain, and both should be redirects to here, which is what happened. Carcharoth 13:52, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
Okay then: agreed. Extremely sexy 14:39, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Nobel Prize fractions

Unfortunately, none of Wikipedia's Nobel laureate lists is taking into account that not all Nobel laureates are of equal importance. Some obviously had much more impact than others. One of them even achieved superstardom and became "man of the century", while most of them remain largely unknown. Here we cannot judge who deserved it etc. But we ought to report how the Nobel committee expresses its own view of the value of individual contributions by awarding fractional prizes. The official Nobel web site explicitly says for each laureate X how much of a Nobel Prize X really got, for example, "1/4 of the prize" or "1/2 of the prize" or "1/3 of the prize" etc. If X got less than 1.0 Nobel Prizes X is still a Nobel laureate, of course, but it's also clear that X could have done better. Everybody in the field, and especially the laureates themselves, are fully aware of the significance of these fractional prizes. Suppose the physics prize goes to 3 researchers, one of them gets 1/2, the others 1/4 each - it's absolutely clear whose contribution was larger in the eyes of the committee.

I think all Wikipedia Nobel Prize lists must be augmented by this crucial information! This will also put in perspective the recent inflation of Nobel laureates in the sciences, which is easy to explain: most of the recent laureates had to share the prize while most of the early laureates got a full prize. The sum of the Nobel Prizes per year is constant; you may divide it among many laureates, but then the laureates necessarily become less outstanding on average. Science History 14:02, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

I agree that the 1/3, 1/4, etc, bits should be added. I disagree that anything should be said about what this implies. Just record the bare facts and avoid speculation about relative worth - it doesn't work when covering more than a century of science anyway. Carcharoth 13:51, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
The Nobel Foundation doesn't take a position on whether the fractions have any meaning. If "[e]verybody in the field [... is] fully aware", that's doesn't have any impact on Wikipedia. Find some reliable sources for that claim, and then we can start talking about doing more that merely noting the fractions. RossPatterson (talk) 21:17, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] RFC: Country data in Nobel lists

There is currently a Request for Comments about the country data in the Nobel lists at Talk:Nobel Prize in Chemistry#RFC: Country data in Nobel lists. Your comments would be appreciated. The results of the RFC may affect all of the Nobel Prize articles. panda 17:02, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Laureates is from.....

I dont know if anyone here knows Dutch. But but there is a Laurierkrans Which is given to the olympic games (dont know if games is the right word) winners. Anyone know if Laureates is connected with Laurier or not? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.80.54.3 (talk) 11:20, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

Yes: I do, because I live in Flanders, so that's even my own mother tongue, and you indeed correct, moreover, we also say laureaten and lauwerkrans (laurier is a tree), derived from the verb lauweren plus its adjective lauwering (in Latin: laudare and laudatio resp.), meaning to honor and honoring resp. Extremely sexy 11:56, 1 October 2007 (UTC)