Should Nobel Prizes have been awarded in nuclear physics?

In his will, Alfred Nobel stated that the prizes should go to those who benefited humanity in some (tangible?) way. I don't recall the exact wording, but I encourage you to look it up. Does that mean that nuclear physics, which has as main impact produced the nuclear bomb, should have been excluded? |||That is not the only application of Nuclear physics.





I would say that the main applications would be for medical use, in the generation of power and archeology (carbon dating) where the principals of nuclear physics are applied every day.





Those are indeed tangible benefits.. don't you think?





|||Alfred Nobel Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, armaments manufacturer and the inventor of dynamite.





The erroneous publication in 1888 of a premature obituary of Nobel by a French newspaper, condemning him for his invention of dynamite, is said to have brought about his decision to leave a better legacy after his death. The obituary stated Le marchand de la mort est mort ("The merchant of death is dead") and went on to say, "Dr. Alfred Nobel, who became rich by finding ways to kill more people faster than ever before, died yesterday.





This was not a man who would have cared if the invention killed people he was more interested in the furthermost of science itself|||dude nobel prize is for physics also. The people who have the greatest contribution have the prize. There is a commitee that decides who should get this prize. All links belove have the winners that contributed to the nuclear physics in some way and each has the nobel prize.


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http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physi…|||No. First of all, nuclear physics is about understanding the basic processes that operate in the nuclei of atoms, it is not about


making bombs.





Also, the bomb has resulted in 60+ years of no world war, so the


builders of the bomb should be given the Nobel Peace prize.|||lets not forget about nuclear power, one of the cheapest and cleanest forms of electricity, and people really need to stop associating nuclear with bomb, you can have one without the other. |||They are awarded for physics (%26amp; other things too). Nuclear physics has had implications far beyond the bomb, medicine for one.