It seems that the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences waited diligently till Stephen Hawking strode out to higher planes of cyborgean existence to finally begin giving out Nobel Prizes in theoretical cosmology, black hole physics and so on. Honestly, I'm pretty much astonished that they took a risk before eyes of scientific establishment to honour his friend and co-author Penrose, who throughout his career deprived so many emperors from their stylish new mind-clouding clothes.