The Nobel Prize is an interesting event. The recipients go from being venerated by a few hundred or thousand of their peers to being celebrities. For the rest of their life they're often introduced as a "Nobel Prizewinner", their opinion is sought by media & the famous, etc.
Looking back to 2000 in Physics, every single prize and every single Laureate has a great case, AFAICT. There are other discoveries and people who could equally well be on the list - but there's no real errors. (Of course, there _are_ pending prizes.)
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I think that often people lose sight of the fact that the Nobel is granted for a social achievement of a scientific advancement, i.e. to what extent does this discovery benefit humanity? It's the perception of the public that attributes personal recognition as the Nobel's goal.
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