Hi. Please do your best to get me some info
on what it takes to be awarded a Pulitzer Prize in physics.
We got some great stuff on the Nobel prize (which see).
The Pulitzer Prize seems less demanding or am I wrong?

Hello again, John!

It is very difficult indeed to win the Pulitzer Prize in Physics.

This is due to the fact that such a category does not exist. The
Pulitzer Prize is a literary honor, and although scientists have won
it (for having written nonfiction books), there is no "Physics"
category, nor a category for any of the sciences.

Here you'll find a complete listing of the Pulitzer Prize's current
categories, plus discontinued categories from years past:

Wikipedia: Pulitzer Prize
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize

A great deal of interesting information on the history of the prize
may be found on the official Pulitzer website:

The Pulitzer Prizes
http://www.pulitzer.org/

Even thought there's no Pulitzer Prize in Physics, there are other
prizes in this area that might be of interest to you:

The Comstock Prize in Physics:

National Academy of Sciences
http://www4.nas.edu/nas/nasaward.nsf/urllinks/NAS-58N2CX?OpenDocument

The Wolf Prize in Physics:

The Wolf Foundation
http://www.aquanet.co.il/wolf/wolf7.html

Google search strategy:

Google Web Search: "pulitzer prize" + physics
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22pulitzer+prize%22+categories

I always hate to disappoint a good customer by giving a negative
answer like this one. So, in order to ease the letdown (and hopefully
provide a smile), I am awarding you the Pullet Surprise:

http://www.mortalwombat.com/Image/trophy.jpg

If anything is in need of clarification, please do not hesitate to
ask.

Best wishes,
pinkfreud

Dear Pinkfreud-ga  you in no way let me down!!! Your excellent and
thorough answer (though different from what I expected) helped me a
lot.

You really did go the second mile with my own "Pullet Surprise"!!!

Keep up the good and fast answers!  I want answers and you gave it!

John P.

Hi John -

Perhaps you were thinking of the Nobel Prize. 

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2001, went to Eric A. Cornell, Wolfgang
Ketterle & Carl E. Wieman "for the achievement of Bose-Einstein
condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early
fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates"

Hi John -

Perhaps you were thinking of the Nobel Prize. 

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2001, went to Eric A. Cornell, Wolfgang
Ketterle & Carl E. Wieman "for the achievement of Bose-Einstein
condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early
fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates"

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2002 went to Raymond Davis Jr.& Masatoshi
Koshiba
"for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, in particular for the
detection of cosmic neutrinos" and to Riccardo Giacconi "for
pioneering contributions to astrophysics, which have led to the
discovery of cosmic X-ray sources"

For more information see:
http://www.nobel.se/physics

Steve

Get a Nobel prize for your experiment, and then a Pulitzer for writing it up.