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Nobel prizes are generally awarded for verifiable observations but, also require real world applications.

Einstein won the physics prize on the photoelectric effect due to having real world applications and observable and if GPS actually existed while he was arrived (yes I know this is a stretch) he would have gotten it for relativity.

Blue LEDs allows you to access more of the color spectrum for LEDs in general and they were not easy to make.

For this year it does feel like a very large leaning into practical applications instead of physics though. Did we run out of interesting physics in the last year?

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Relativity had just as much real world relevance in the 1920's as the Higgs boson has today....