Time To Update The Nobels
Even those few modern experimentalists who have won unshared Nobel prizes owe their success to numerous collaborators – especially in particle physics and astronomy, which require massive data sets and large teams to analyse them. If the Nobel Prize is a true meritocracy, a scientist should be eligible to win it as many times as she or he makes a prize-worthy discovery. Technically, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, co-discoverers of remnants of the early Universe called cosmic microwave background radiation, each won a quarter of the prize; the other half was awarded for completely unrelated work, as a sort of lifetime achievement award to the Russian physicist Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa ‘for his basic inventions and discoveries in the area of low-temperature physics’.
Source: aeon.co