artifex comments on Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering

I know I'm replying to a 7 months old thread, but reading it got me wondering is there a limit to frequency? Well, I'm sure there is, my question is more like what is it? Is it when the wavelength nears or reaches plank legnth, if that even makes any sense?

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[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

He might have won the very first Nobel Prize, had he not passed away just a few years prior, and much too young, wasn't he in his late-30s or early-40s?

In fact, I believe that had Hertz remained alive and won his prize, the Nobel Committee would not have felt obliged to give it to Marconi a few years later.

Marconi was a back-stabbing asshole who became one of the wealthiest men in the world by abusing the gentlemanly trust of others, and coasting on someone else's technology - particularly the way crystals oscillate, and some of them serve nicely as a sort of "translation point" between electromagnetic waves and the physical apparatus that transmits and/or receives the signal.

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[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

He might have won the very first Nobel Prize, had he not passed away just a few years prior,

Basically the same thing happened twenty years later with Henrietta Swan Leavitt, who made a discovery that's essential to figuring distances in space. She noticed something while working as a computer at Harvard College Observatory that eventually became known as Leavitt's Law. Her Nobel nomination was halted because she passed away and the award is not given posthumously. Hubble's work heavily relied on hers.

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