The "holistic" approach is always useful: to consider creator's Lebens-Ansichten in a combination with his/her works. Otherwise, you risk to estimate him/her badly wrong, should you happen to collaborate with him/her or follow an advice.

Nonetheless, the sheer fact that works clearly belonging to the AIT/AI studies field have been awarded a Nobel Prize in Physics, is, of course, much more significant, as an act equivalent to a seminal decision of the Supreme Court. The ancient taboo, that often precluded Nobel recognition of mathematicians or programmers, has been broken.