Who Were the 2017 PF Award Winners?

[Greg Bernhardt]

Happy New Year! It's been another incredible 365 days spent on PF!

Congrats to all who were nominated as it's a true honor. It should be remembered each voting list could easily have been ten times as long. We have an amazing core of members here at PF. A member may have won more than one category, but can be awarded for just one.

Thanks all who participated in the voting and commentary!

Now for a special congratulations to the popular vote winners! Winners will receive a special badge which will last the year.

Hall of Legends Award
@vanhees71

Physics Award
@Orodruin

Homework Help Award
@BvU
@TSny

Mathematics Award
@lavinia
@FactChecker

Astro/Cosmo Award
@davenn

Engineering Award
@sophiecentaur

Other Science Award
@Ygggdrasil

Guidance Counselor Award
@Vanadium 50

Newcomer Award
@scottdave

Best Insight Award
What is a Tensor?
@fresh_42

Insight Writer Award
@mfb

Community Spirit Award
@Borg

Best Humor Award
@DennisN

https://www.physicsforums.com/forums/2017-pf-member-award-polls.262/

 

[scottdave]

Things like this help keep PhysicsForums fun. I enjoyed voting for people, and going back and looking the old Insights articles.
And thanks for the nominations and the vote. I am honored.

 

[berkeman]

Congrats again to all who were nominated -- you are especially what makes the PF such a great place.

And congrats to the winners! Enjoy the avatar trophies!

 

[Drakkith]

Congrats to everyone, winner or not!

 

[Charles Link]

Congratulations to all of the winners, especially @BvU and @TSny in the Homework Helper Category. That one was a very good contest, and I enjoyed being part of the competition. :)

 

[anorlunda]

Kudos to all the winners and nominees.

 

[QuantumQuest]

Congratulations to all the nominees and winners. I am honored to be nominated for the Community Spirit Award and I especially want to congratulate @Borg for his win.

 

[DS2C]

Congrats to all winners and nominees!

 

[Orodruin]

Thank you all for your votes, the recognition means a lot! Also congratulations to all other winners and in particular @mfb who I predict as the winner of next year’s HoL award (you read it first here! )

 

[sophiecentaur]

Thanks for the votes guys. It's good to know that people like what I'm doing.
And congrats to all the other runners and riders.
But the really great thing is that Greg and his Christmas Elves make this Forum so good that we all feel it's worthwhile to keep posting here.
Happy New year to all, too.

 

[jim hardy]

Congratulations to winners of course,
and to the PF community for wise choices ..

I'm proud to be a PF member . . Quoting @sophiecentaur ,

"I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member."

This one, where people actually try to help one another, is worth the effort to measure up.
You folks make a fellow want to be a better person. Thanks for all the helping hands you've extended.

old jim

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

But the really great thing is that Greg and his Christmas Elves make this Forum so good that we all feel it's worthwhile to keep posting here.

It's a great example of symbiosis

 

[sophiecentaur]

It's a great example of symbiosis

Am I a shrimp or a sea anemone, I wonder?

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Am I a shrimp or a sea anemone, I wonder?

Nah you're an octopus!

 

[Ygggdrasil]

Thanks to all those who voted for me, and congratulations to all the winners. Also, thanks to all of the frequent posters and contributors to the Other Sciences section who make it a great community to be a part of.

 

[rootone]

Grats everyone.

 

[cnh1995]

Congrats to all the winners and thanks to all those who voted for me.

 

[berkeman]

Nah you're an octopus!

That's either the wrong Class or Phylum, Greg. We both need to read the Biology forum more regularly...

https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct...aw3wN7hrrwnSjxN-oVIz_1T6&ust=1515026616735646

 

[mfb]

Thank you for the votes!
Congratulations to all the other winners.

Also congratulations to all other winners and in particular @mfb who I predict as the winner of next year’s HoL award (you read it first here! )

Said the one who won both the physics and mathematics polls with a big margin...

@Greg Bernhardt: The alt text of the icon still says 2016.

 

[Orodruin]

Said the one who won both the physics and mathematics polls with a big margin...

Have you seen your number of likes?

 

[berkeman]

Get a room guys...

On second thought, I'll bring the champagne and wear my Bell Hop hat...

 

[Orodruin]

Said the one who won both the physics and mathematics polls with a big margin...

Also, I must say I was very surprised, but grateful, that so many voted for me in the mathematics poll. I really did not expect it. I think there are many posters in the maths forums that have a deeper knowledge than I do when it comes to formal mathematics - this year’s shared winners included - and I think I come off as quite grumpy sometimes...

 

[doglover9754]

Congrats to everyone! Best wishes to all of you!

 

[doglover9754]

Get a room guys...

On second thought, I'll bring the champagne and wear my Bell Hop hat...

What’s a Bell Hop hat?

 

[doglover9754]

I just realized. Why are there no females? I mean, female winners. I didn’t check who got nominated for each category.

 

[ISamson]

Congratulations. Simple as that.

 

[Stavros Kiri]

Splendid! Keep it up all. The great PF people maintain a high PF level. Congratulations to all ...

 

[Orodruin]

I just realized. Why are there no females? I mean, female winners. I didn’t check who got nominated for each category.

I ask the same thing about the Nobel prize every year ...

Underrepresentation is a general problem in many scientific fields and that translates to PF.

 

[Stavros Kiri]

I ask the same thing about the Nobel prize every year ...

Also there are no mathematicians nominated for Nobel prize! ? ...
Anyone knows the reason?
Hint: women caused that too ...

Underrepresentation

Hmmm! I don't think so ... (in a different sense)

 

[Orodruin]

Also there are no mathematicians nominated for Nobel prize! ? ...
Anyone knows the reason?
Hint: women caused that too ...

You know that is a myth, right?

 

[Stavros Kiri]

You know that is a myth, right?

Not sure. But then why there is no nobel of Mathematics?
[Google it - I haven't done a full search though]

 

[Orodruin]

Not sure. But then why there is no nobel of Mathematics?
[Google it]

We will never know for sure simply because there is no record of any reason. The most likely scenario is that it simply did not occur to Nobel. He wanted to award the most important “discovery or invention” and selected five areas out of which four were very close to his own interests and the fifth (medicine) of obvious benefit to mankind in Nobel’s mind. As an applied engineer, it is likely that he did not consider mathematics to be of direct benefit or to encompass discoveries or inventions in the sense he meant it.

Swedish mathematicians Hörmander and Gårding wrote a peer reviewed paper on the subject of why there is no Nobel prize in mathematics and effectively debunked the idea that it was because of an affair. However, the story sounds juicy and is therefore retold without reasonable source criticism.

Edit: Also, the fact that I am Swedish and never had any professor tell me this story should probably be indicative of that the supposition of the affair probably did not even originate in Sweden.

 

[Stavros Kiri]

We will never know for sure simply because there is no record of any reason. The most likely scenario is that it simply did not occur to Nobel. He wanted to award the most important “discovery or invention” and selected five areas out of which four were very close to his own interests and the fifth (medicine) of obvious benefit to mankind in Nobel’s mind. As an applied engineer, it is likely that he did not consider mathematics to be of direct benefit or to encompass discoveries or inventions in the sense he meant it.

Swedish mathematicians Hörmander and Gårding wrote a peer reviewed paper on the subject of why there is no Nobel prize in mathematics and effectively debunked the idea that it was because of an affair. However, the story sounds juicy and is therefore retold without reasonable source criticism.

It makes sense

 

[mfb]

I just realized. Why are there no females? I mean, female winners. I didn’t check who got nominated for each category.

The large majority of PF users is male.

If we go by users who set their gender in their profile: 82% if we consider all users, but 94% of the users with more than 500 posts. The large majority doesn’t set their gender in the profile and you can put in wrong information, so it is unclear how useful these numbers are. If you look at the top 20 in total posts, the fraction is 95% (hi @Evo).

 

[mfb]

how to write down mathematical statements easily in the thread?

See Help -> LaTeX.
I don’t think this is the right place for questions about forum functions.