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silence_kit posted:Particle physics and astrophysics are "high physics" though, and are more prestigious than the more practical fields like condensed matter physics. So much so that the Nobel Prizes in 2007, 2009, 2010, 2012 and 2014 all went to discoveries like graphene, CCD cameras, and blue LEDs.
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silence_kit posted:Most of the time discoveries in condensed matter physics have to actually matter to society to earn a Nobel. And in a lot of those cases, those contributions weren't fundamental physics advances, they were more like chemistry/material science advances, like with Charles Kao proposing the idea for fiber optics by recognizing that if you were to make glass very pure, it could be very transparent to infrared light. Or Shuji Nakamura perfecting the metamorphic epitaxial crystal growth of gallium nitride to enable efficient blue light-emitting diodes. I'm sure those in high physics scoffed and said that those scientists discovered no new physics when those awards were announced.
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