Peter Shor and Michael Berry got mentioned in the reddit thread, and I think they'd be very deserving. Shor for Shor's algorithm in quantum computing, and Berry for the Berry phase, which designs a scenario where the complex phase in the quantum mechanical wave function generates an experimentally observable quantity. The former is mayby debatably not fundamental, but the latter is pretty important to our modern understanding of quantum mechanics.
Crunch data is physics now? Like there wasn't anything better or is this all like the Oscars and marketing?
Peter Shor and Michael Berry got mentioned in the reddit thread, and I think they'd be very deserving. Shor for Shor's algorithm in quantum computing, and Berry for the Berry phase, which designs a scenario where the complex phase in the quantum mechanical wave function generates an experimentally observable quantity. The former is mayby debatably not fundamental, but the latter is pretty important to our modern understanding of quantum mechanics.
That seems like more deserving stuff.