Colleagues remember Peter Higgs as an inspirational scientist, who remained humble despite his fame. Credit: Graham Clark/Alamy Topics: CERN, Higgs Boson, High Energy Physics, Nobel Prize, Particle Physics, Quantum Mechanics, Theoretical Physics Few scientists have enjoyed as much fame in recent years as British theoretical physicist Peter Higgs, the namesake of the boson that was discoveredContinue reading “Nanos Gigantum Humeris Insidentes…”
Category Archives: Nobel Prize
Economic Sciences…
Topics: Economics, Nobel Laureate, Nobel Prize Prize announcement. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Prize Outreach AB 2023. Mon. 9 Oct 2023. < https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/2023/prize-announcement/ > 9 October 2023 The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2023 to Claudia GoldinHarvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA “for havingContinue reading “Economic Sciences…”
Physiology or Medicine…
Figure 2. mRNA contains four different bases, abbreviated A, U, G, and C. The Nobel Laureates discovered that base-modified mRNA can be used to block the activation of inflammatory reactions (secretion of signaling molecules) and increase protein production when mRNA is delivered to cells. © The Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine. Ill. Mattias Karlén Topics:Continue reading “Physiology or Medicine…”
Challenging the Standard Model…
Excited helium nuclei inflate like balloons, offering physicists a chance to study the strong nuclear force which binds the nucleus’s protons and neutrons. Kristina Armitage/Quanta Magazine Topics: Modern Physics, Nobel Prize, Particle Physics, Quantum Mechanics, Steven Weinberg, Theoretical Physics A new measurement of the strong nuclear force, which binds protons and neutrons together, confirms previousContinue reading “Challenging the Standard Model…”
The Nobel Prize in Economics 2022…
Topics: Economics, Nobel Laureate, Nobel Prize The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2022 was awarded jointly to Ben S. Bernanke, Douglas W. Diamond, and Philip H. Dybvig “for research on banks and financial crises” The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2022. NobelPrize.org. NobelContinue reading “The Nobel Prize in Economics 2022…”
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2022…
Topics: Literature, Nobel Laureate, Nobel Prize The Nobel Prize in Literature 2022 is awarded to the French author Annie Ernaux, “for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements, and collective restraints of personal memory”. The Nobel Prize in Literature 2022. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Prize Outreach AB 2022. Thu. 6 Oct 2022. <Continue reading “The Nobel Prize in Literature 2022…”
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022…
Topics: Chemistry, Nobel Laureate, Nobel Prize The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022 was awarded jointly to Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal, and K. Barry Sharpless “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry” The 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry is about making the difficult simple. Barry Sharpless and Morten Meldal have laid the foundations forContinue reading “The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022…”
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2022…
Topics: Nobel Laureate, Nobel Prize, Physics The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2022 to Alain AspectUniversité Paris-Saclay andÉcole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France John F. ClauserJ.F. Clauser & Assoc., Walnut Creek, CA, USA Anton ZeilingerUniversity of Vienna, Austria “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalitiesContinue reading “The Nobel Prize in Physics 2022…”
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2022…
Topics: Medicine, Nobel Laureate, Nobel Prize Press release The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has today decided to award the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Svante Pääbo for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution Humanity has always been intrigued by its origins. Where do we come from, andContinue reading “The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2022…”
5 Elements…
Topics: Chemistry, Nobel Laureate, Nobel Prize Currently, there are 118 elements on the periodic table. If a new element is discovered, naming it involves several factors. Elements can be named after how they were obtained, their attributes, the compound they were isolated from, and places they were discovered. However, they can also be named after the peopleContinue reading “5 Elements…”
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