Editing Nobel Prize (section)

=== Emphasis on discoveries over inventions ===
Alfred Nobel left his fortune to finance annual prizes to be awarded "to those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind".<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20110604155708/http://nobelprize.org/alfred_nobel/will/short_testamente.html Excerpt from the Will of Alfred Nobel]. nobelprize.org</ref> He stated that the Nobel Prizes in Physics should be given "to the person who shall have made the most important 'discovery' or 'invention' within the field of physics". Nobel did not emphasise discoveries, but they have historically been held in higher respect by the Nobel Prize Committee than inventions: 77% of the Physics Prizes have been given to discoveries, compared with only 23% to inventions. Christoph Bartneck and Matthias Rauterberg, in papers published in ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]'' and ''Technoetic Arts'', have argued this emphasis on discoveries has moved the Nobel Prize away from its original intention of rewarding the greatest contribution to society.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Bartneck |first1=Christoph |last2=Rauterberg |first2=Matthias |date=9 August 2007 |title=Physics Nobels should favour inventions |journal=Nature |volume=448 |issue=7154 |page=644 |bibcode=2007Natur.448..644B |doi=10.1038/448644c |pmid=17687300 |doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Bartneck |first1=Christoph |last2=Rauterberg |first2=Matthias |year=2008 |title=The asymmetry between discoveries and inventions in the Nobel Prize in Physics |url=http://www.bartneck.de/publications/2008/nobel/bartneckTechnoeticArts2008.pdf |journal=Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research |volume=6 |page=73 |citeseerx=10.1.1.145.8130 |doi=10.1386/tear.6.1.73_1 |access-date=25 October 2017 |archive-date=26 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210226225222/http://www.bartneck.de/publications/2008/nobel/bartneckTechnoeticArts2008.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>