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The Nobel Prize and the Exoplanet Discoveries
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Alex Wolszczak, an astronomer at Penn State, discovered a planet orbiting a pulsar in 1992, three years before the Nobel Prize-winning discovery of the first exoplanet in 1995. This raises questions about whether he should have been awarded the Nobel Prize, and the need to rethink awarding scientific discoveries in general.
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The Nobel Prize committee could consider awarding the prize to lesser-known researchers for their contributions, like Alex Wolszczak's discovery of a planet orbiting a neutron star or the developers of physical cosmology, rather than sticking to the traditional awarding of prizes to well-known names and discovering normal planets.
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Nobel Prize
Summary
The Nobel Prize committee could consider awarding the prize to lesser-known researchers for their contributions, like Alex Wolszczak's discovery of a planet orbiting a neutron star or the developers of physical cosmology, rather than sticking to the traditional awarding of prizes to well-known names and discovering normal planets.