Yes I agree to this point..the number of breakthroughs in science (maybe High impact journal publications) might give us a better glimpse of the best in this field..right? I can talk only hard sciences as I don't understand politics or literature..
any other parameter that you feel is better to evaluate this.. regards, jd On 8/19/10, Fabrizio Giudici <[email protected]> wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 8/19/10 10:10 , Kevin Wright wrote: >> >> Me: ... >> >> > Me: I don't care minimally Nobel prizes. The one for Peace proved to > be ridiculous since a lot of years. The one for Literature is heavily > influenced by politics (for instance, I've read some newspaper > articles mentioning an anti-american prejudice of the literature > committee). The scientific ones should be better, but in the end I > don't understand the meaning of a self-referential committee who > decides who's the better scientist - it's the science that decides. I > mean, the Nobel Prize is a hyper-conformist thing in the field > (science) that should be the most anti-conformist in the world. And I > don't understand how a thing such as the Nobel can be considered as > serious when the founder refused to consider Mathematics (that sounds > as a science to me) because his wife betrayed him with a mathematics > scientist... > > - -- > Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager > Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." > java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people > [email protected] > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAkxs6tMACgkQeDweFqgUGxcxLwCgnfnRkivUQ6nKC/MFVfcLrV5i > krYAoI+pmiYeZjqfiw6KSEczJT3nH+ZB > =TeHF > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
