President Donald Trump on Thursday appeared to say some credit score for the Nobel Prize in physics for work performed a long time earlier than he even turned president.
The president shared a quote on Fact Social that he stated was from Power Secretary Chris Wright ― a former fracking exec ― saying the award this yr given for work in quantum physics is, by extension, an award for Trump.
“Quantum computing, together with AI and Fusion, are the three signature Trump science efforts,” the quote attributed to Wright learn. “Trump 47 racks up his first Nobel Prize!!”
This yr’s prize went to John Clarke (UC Berkeley), Michel H. Devoret (Yale and UC Santa Barbara), and John M. Martinis (UC Santa Barbara and Qolab), for “the invention of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and vitality quantisation in an electrical circuit,” in response to a information launch from the Nobel Basis.
Trump has made no secret of his want to win a Nobel, though the one he fixates on most is the Nobel Peace Prize. He has complained for years about not getting one, insisting he ought to have “4 or 5” of them, and appears particularly bitter that President Barack Obama has one.
His critics mocked him for shifting consideration to a prize they are saying he’s even much less certified for:
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