Am also wondering now whether the 1972 nomination had advance knowledge of the Clauser experiment ... Clearly some work for historians!

A good time to do this would likely be 2033 ... There would be many more nominations, and it would be a year before the 70 th anniversary. Perfect timing to see how things were received after the Aspect experiment as well.

I think you have to go to Stockholm with a good reason. Can't blame them otherwise they'd spend all their time opening the archives.

Looks like it's time to make a big deal of this @mickeykats.bsky.social Won't be difficult, just need a high profile first speaker and there'll be plenty willing to come to a lecture with such a prestigious title!

What what what??? You should have an annual Bell Day Lecture yourselves!!!

I wondered the same. It might be because there wasn't always a clean "nomination" asked, but people just wrote letters. Extracting a concise "nomination" for all the historical prizes would likely be too much work. If you're a historian you can ask to consult the original documents I think.

There is the 11 February - www.un.org/en/observanc... The date here does not correspond to any particular historical event and I am guessing the avoided 11 November as it would have been too close to the existing World Science Day www.un.org/en/observanc...

Some of the decisions I have seen in universities over the years also seem like astrology to me :-)

Perfect then! Agree with the sentiment anyway - far too many distractions in academia!

No better than @rmathematicus.bsky.social for a wee check of the context here ...

Yep - very humble and as long as there's some physics to discuss, he's always interested to give time.

Over in the other place, Grok actually gets it right ...

I got a different result !!

Just been too busy lately but starting to get back to social media again. Hope you've managed somewhere nice to cycle around this summer!