Nobel Prize

Let’s talk about Nobel Prize. Those who have won Nobel Prize are definitely the best of the best scholars ; however, I think for most of us, instead of focusing what this person has achieved to win the prize, we should focus on which field of study wins the prize and this is important because usually the field which wins the prize is the field which is most needed at the moment. Nobel chemistry prize this year was rewarded to lithium-ion battery scientists, the Physics prize was rewarded to astrophysicists, the economics prize for this year has not been announced but last year it was rewarded to environmental economists. We can see that these research fields are highly demanded and gain lots of attention now in our society, and the actual work that helped them win the prizes was done years before they won the prizes.

When we are looking at the Nobel Prize, it is not just telling us how much the scientists have achieved, more importantly it also tells which field is highly demanded for further research.