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Line 7: − The selection of Nobel Prize winners is a complex and mysterious subject, and not without occasional controversy. There have been a number of cases of people not being awarded a Nobel in decisions that many observers strongly disagreed with. Some of the better-known examples are Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Lise Meitner, Fred Hoyle, Rosalind Franklin, and [[Robert Dicke]]. The first two of these were asserted to be plain sexism. Fred Hoyle probably lost out at least in part, because several years earlier he had loudly condemned the exclusion of [[Jocelyn Bell Burnell]] from the 1974 Physics Prize<ref>http://www.theguardian.com/science/2010/oct/03/fred-hoyle-nobel-prize</ref>. Roslind Franklin lost out because she died before she could receive the award. There is a hard-and-fast rule that the recipient must be living. (Peter Higgs waited nearly 50 years for the Higgs boson to be confirmed, finally winning his Nobel at age 84.)+ − Achievements for which a Nobel is awarded must also stand the test of time. The Nobel committee does not like to find that something they awarded a prize for turned out to be wrong. So there is often a long delay, as in Peter Higgs' case.+ − − The Hoyle's "steady state creation" theory turned out to be wrong. But he, like Robert Dicke, made other groundbreaking contributions in cosmology, at a time when cosmology was not yet a respectable field of study. − − So it's really hard to say.
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In 1983 the [[Nobel Prize]] committee insulted Hoyle by passing him over and giving the award to underlings for his work. "For ... one of the greatest intellectual triumphs of modern physics, he was ignored by the Nobel Prize committee which chose to reward others who had done lesser work in this field. Thus, the scientific establishment, which claims to seek truth dispassionately, treated one of its finest proponents with contempt."<ref>http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2005/jul/24/biography.features1, http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/oct/03/fred-hoyle-nobel-prize</ref>
In 1983 the [[Nobel Prize]] committee insulted Hoyle by passing him over and giving the award to underlings for his work. "For ... one of the greatest intellectual triumphs of modern physics, he was ignored by the Nobel Prize committee which chose to reward others who had done lesser work in this field. Thus, the scientific establishment, which claims to seek truth dispassionately, treated one of its finest proponents with contempt."<ref>http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2005/jul/24/biography.features1, http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/oct/03/fred-hoyle-nobel-prize</ref>
Fred Hoyle probably lost out, at least in part, because several years earlier he had loudly condemned the exclusion of [[Jocelyn Bell Burnell]] from the 1974 Physics Prize<ref>http://www.theguardian.com/science/2010/oct/03/fred-hoyle-nobel-prize</ref>.
See [http://www.conservapedia.com/Nobel_Prize#Criteria the discussion of Nobel Prize criteria] for further discussion of this topic.
In 1985 (two years later) Hoyle was part of a group that exposed the [[Archaeopteryx]] - then a favorite of promoters of [[evolution]] - as a fraud<ref>http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/archaeopteryx/forgery.html</ref>.
In 1985 (two years later) Hoyle was part of a group that exposed the [[Archaeopteryx]] - then a favorite of promoters of [[evolution]] - as a fraud<ref>http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/archaeopteryx/forgery.html</ref>.