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[lr1970]

By this definition Claude Shannon (the father of Information Theory) clearly deserves a Nobel in Physics. The central concept in Information Theory is Entropy which is defined literally the same way as in Physics. And Shannon's Information Theory clearly revolutionized our life (tele-communications) much more than Hopfield network or Hinton's Boltzmann machine.

[drpossum → lr1970]

Fun historical fact: Claude Shannon did win the Noble prize

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Noble_Prize#Recipients

[elashri → drpossum]

That's different local prize by the American society of civil engineers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Noble_Prize

[drpossum → elashri]

Yes. That's the joke.

[hnfong → drpossum]

[party pooping] It would have been better delivery if you said "a Nobel prize" instead of "the".

[lr1970 → drpossum]

In 1939 Claude Shannon won the "wrong" Nobel prize -- The Alfred Noble Prize award presented by the American Society of Civil Engineers [0]. It causes a lot of confusion. Claude Shannon never won a "real Nobel".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Noble_Prize

EDIT: typos