Finance, biology, CS, anything that uses vaguely statistical models and principles is fair game now?

I don’t hate physics, but if you stretch terms like that they tend to lose meaning.

I am having trouble coming up with more examples of "methods which revolutionized the practice of statistics", can you think of any?

Is statistical mechanics not a physics discipline?

Not to be dismissive, but through any “series of approximations and simplifications” you can go from anything to anything else.

This is missing /s

No relation to neuroscience whatsoever.

I see lots of potential here.

> With their breakthroughs, that stand on the foundations of physical science

Uhm, no. This has negatively and retroactively impacted my appreciation of the award. If I were in academic CS I would have blatantly rejected it. This is ridiculous.