A Nobel Prize in Physics for Science Later Proved Wrong?!
The Nobel Prize in Physics is the biggest prize in all of physics - it’s what every scientist secretly hopes their work will lead to. To be included in the list of greats that have come before us.
2025-06-19 22:00:00 - Dr. Becky
But has there even been a Nobel Prize in Physics where the science it was awarded for was later shown to be wrong? Because famously, the Nobel Prize committee doesn’t remove prizes once awarded.
It’s happened in medicine a few times, but what about in physics? Because there have been 118 Nobel Prizes in Physics awarded since 1901 shared by 226 different people, the majority of which have gone to nuclear and particle physics: understanding the building blocks of matter.
And it’s one of those prizes that went to Enrico Fermi in 1938 that is now partly considered “wrong”, although the science was right, the interpretation was wrong...