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		jhbadger on Oct 8, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to John Hopfield an... Well in 1912, the physics prize went to a guy who designed a better light for light houses and buoys to prevent shipwrecks! Actually, most early Nobels went to practical things. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustaf_Dal%C3%A9n

hackernewds on Oct 9, 2024 [–]

you could consider them very important building blocks. if far enough in time, the wheel would've been a worthy winner

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