Winning the nobel prize?

Question

Heh, this is a stupid question, but are there any tips for winning the nobel prize in physics for someone still in school?

Answer 1

Yes, follow Richard Feynman's route: mind your own business and that bloody prize comes springing out from behind a bush to attack you. He didn't want it. It happened and he couldn't get rid of it.

Why do you want one anyhow?

Just do your best, and if it happens, it happens, and you'll manage the best you can after that.

Answer 2

The only prize you can win intentionally is the Peace Prize. And judging from the last 15 years or so, the best way to win is to fight for policies that result in as many deaths and human misery as possible, while supporting terrorists and/or totalitarian dictatorships and helpng nuclear proliferation. Oh, and you must hate America and George Bush.

Usually your policies must SEEM humainistic, but the results are no longer a factor to the Nobel Committee. And they definitely don't wait long enough to see if your actions actually DID help the cause of world peace. (Such as the subsequent failures of Peace Prize winning efforts in Palestine, North Korea, and the continuing failure of the IAEA to stop nuclear proliferation.)

I'm just scratching the surface.

Answer 3

You can't really plan on winning Nobel prize, except in the sense that you must pick a subject that you really love and study it until you know it amazingly well. And you must have an unlimited supply of curiosity.

The other answer suggested Richard Feynman's books as a good source for info about science. I definitely think that is a good suggestion - Feynman was not only a great physicist, but he was a great teacher and his books are a MUST read for anyone who is going into science, IMHO. They are really fun and give a good idea of what kind of person makes a great scientist.

Answer 4

Find someone who has been working on stuff that could win, and then take credit for thier work. Do you honestly believe you are going to get answers from a group of nobel prize winners here?

Answer 5

Yes. Discover something no one else has ever discovered that makes a huge contribution to science. And then wait 20 years, because no one will give you the Nobel prize until the results of your research have been clearly shown to be correct and world-changing.

So no, not really. Concentrate on learning the basic physics for now, and spend your summers doing REU programs to learn how to do research. Then spend your life working on research, and maybe you'll someday be one of the 0.0001% that gets it really really right.

Answer 6

Don't think about it. Do physics because you love it. That is your best shot of getting the nobel prize. That's what Feynman taught me.

Answer 7

I tink daniel T is right. All people who have one it have done so through their commitment 2 their field and were'nt aiming at the prize but at solving that particular problem. So focus on a problem not the prize

Answer 8

No winner set out to win the prize.

What they did set out to do was solve a problem that has never been solved before.

I was touring a USC Biology lab with my students and something the professor said stays with me..

when describing his sampling technique he pointed to all the power tools lying around his lab.. "we have to create our own sampling mechanism, if you can buy it from someone else that means it's been done before"

Answer 9

Try hard in school, work hard in life, and just do stuff that other people have not.

Want to be world famous?

Cure cancer.

Answer 10

wear mismatched socks, use a necktie for a belt, grow a mustache, drop the conditioner, get average grades, and hope you get noticed