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I was scratching my head but then it seems like the precedence for awarding Nobel prize for Physics for something that isn't "exclusively" physics has been set before.

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2018/summary/

Peter Shor also got an award (albeit non Nobel) for something that overlaps Physics with Math + CS.

https://news.mit.edu/2022/shor-spielman-breakthrough-prize-0...

To me, I'd rather see a Nobel Prize in Math/CS/IS but if I had to choose where these type of work would be shoehorned into existing Nobel prize category physics would be it.





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