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just to go back to is a sustainability prize then there was um a winner for 2007 the Noba the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize which was related to climate change and that was the intergovernmental panel on climate change and Al Gore oh yeah so he won for something in specific but like a sustainability practice it was for efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change so I think that might have been when Al Gore released that uh what was that program he made
the Inconvenient Truth An Inconvenient Truth so I think it was that yeah so does that mean you could be an engineer or a business person championing sustainability and get a Nobel Peace Prize yeah that's also a very quick turnaround the same year no sorry I'm I got it wrong it was 2006 the documentary was released so follow me still though it's it's not 20 years it's better than blue LEDs yeah yeah which was for almost 40 years it's interesting well because the Peace
Prize is a little bit different isn't it because that can be an awarded to an organization whereas the chemistry physics ones are I think a maximum of three black people on one project yeah and I wonder what that means we talk about the Large Hadron Collider and that is a huge collaborative effort between nations and how many thousands of scientists have worked on that thing but you can't win a Nobel Prize in physics for the Large Hadron Collider yeah because I was thinking about the
jwst and like all the research and data that's come out of that and again that is a you know huge Space Program across multiple countries and organizations but yeah you can't award that to like NASA or the esa or anyone like that so yeah it's interesting to have one that is more geared towards organizations like the EU won it didn't they win the Peace Prize at one stage they did yes which quite strange you're not quite sure what they want it for or whether it was just a celebration
of like International cooperation I suppose so this is a essentially a Swedish based prize isn't it so there are students essentially were boarding themselves a price that [Laughter] maybe there wasn't very much stiff competition that year the the other night wasn't so good so they thought we'll do give ourselves a pat on the back [Laughter] because Obama won as well didn't he won the Peace Prize yeah that doesn't really feels a bit strange because didn't he
get it really early into being present as well yeah I think it was less than a year that he won wow did he was he awarded it because of being the first black president of the United States do they say what was the reason that can't be the reason but maybe that's something yeah I don't think they could say that because then isn't that just sort of almost uh yeah the Wikipedia version says extraordinary efforts to strengthen International diplomacy and cooperation between peoples
but it doesn't say like broken peace between this country and this country or like a specific thing seems quite uh very very Canary yeah to any like world leader though I feel like I'm not not sure about anything [Laughter] I'm a little awarding it for Albert Einstein just for being a good scientist yeah that's true is it like a you know like a blanket award like you're really good at being president slash a diplomat and therefore you deserve the recognition and Einstein was just really good at
physics and that sort of thing so he deserved it rather than for a specific moment or a specific discovery um Einstein's was General but it did also mention the photoelectric effect so maybe you also have to do something I say how much can you know about someone's like how good somebody's going to be as a leader if they haven't even been a leader for a year yeah that's true but then I guess he was a congressman first or Senator first oh my American electoral system is
confusing but presumably he had done other works leading up to his presidency yeah and then had he not won the election potentially he wouldn't have won and would they have given it to the other candidate yes that's true interesting yeah it's a difficult one the views expressed in this podcast belong entirely to the person that said them they did not represent any industry or organization if you enjoyed listening to these views it would really help us out if you could rate US leave a review
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