Nobel prize Definition and 127 Threads

http://nobelprize.org/ Albert Fert and Peter Grünberg "for the discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance"

nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2007/ "for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells" Mario R. Capecchi Sir Martin J. Evans Oliver Smithies

Kapitza won his prize for low temp. physics but opted to give his http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1978/kapitsa-lecture.pdf" on nuclear fusion possibilities. I was interested in the plasma thin layer heat insulation effect he mentions, as I wasn't previously familiar though...

http://astrophysics.gsfc.nasa.gov/staff/CVs/John.Mather/" "for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation" http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2006/index.html

It's that time of the year again... Physiology/Medicine http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2006/press.html

If you are going to meet a professor and you've got to ask him one question, what will you ask? I am going to write abt 50 words about physics for selection purpose. He is a condensed matter physicist. His area of investigation is the quantum Hall effect. He has made a breakthrough which leads...

Anybody who can explain the details of atomic spectra by classical means will win a Nobel. Particularly, 100 years ago, quite a few have tried to build classical models of the atom, all without success. In the meantime we've put semiconductors and lasers, quantum devices both, radioactivity and...

Heres a new website dedicated to the hero of all physics geeks: Richard P. Feynman.The site features many Feynman articles like his lectures, anecdotes, jokes, stories etc.. other resources like jokes and daily news feed and others make it a good site to kill time or learn some random stuff...

i am wondering if the next case is frequent in the territories of physics/maths academia researchers: a pure mathematician who also writes articles in theoretical physics although he is only associated with the pure maths faculty at his univ, his employer. and also the other way around. and...

http://nobelprize.org/chemistry/laureates/2005/index.html The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2005 jointly to Yves Chauvin Institut Français du Pétrole, Rueil-Malmaison, France, Robert H. Grubbs California Institute of...

Barry J. Marshall and J. Robin Warren for their discovery of "the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease" http://nobelprize.org/medicine/laureates/2005/press.html

Just want to share with you the content of an article that i read this morning on the train. Research groups (i believe in the UK) have done extensive studies among scientists that concluded that you reach your TOP level at around 30. We all know that Einstein was around 25-27 when he wrote his...

One of my professors said today that there's a really funny joke out on teh web that was a lil too 'obsecene' to say in class about why there isn't a nobel prize for mathematics. Anyone know what it is? :)

I realized today that there wasn't one, and i haven't been able to find out why. Anyone here know?

When will mathematics and mathematicians get the credit to them that is due? Before a physicist can do their work, a mathematician had to invent the mathematics to do physics. Computer science relies heavily on mathematics. Economics was added in the late 60's so why doesn't the Nobel commitee...

I didn't see this story posted anywhere. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/10/06/MNG6294F1O1.DTL

the prize in physics is scheduled to be announced tomorrow (Tuesday) there was an experiment at a German university's Econ department with a model stock market in Nobel prospects registration is AFAIK closed but trading is still going on the prize in Medicine for this year has been...

4 October 2004 Richard Axel und Linda B. Buck will receive this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine.

Do you know how we can get a Nobel prize ? :blushing: I am thinking if I will receive one in 20 years later, at that time, do you think I should divide the money I get into many parts for many people working in the same lab with me? Thank you

my question is simple: Will Hawking or Penrose ever win Nobel Prize? And if yes, when do you think it will come.

I've seen in a previous post that there are some people here who praise America's number of Nobel prize winners. They draw bizarre conclusions from that simple statistic. So here's something else about those same American Nobel Prize Winners, and a few other conclusions. 48 Nobel...

Most Nobel Prize by Countries from 1901 - 2002 1. United States[/color] - 261[/color] 2. United Kingdom[/color] - 79 [/color] 3. Germany[/color] - 61 [/color] 4. France [/color]- 28 [/color] 5. Switzerland [/color]- 22 [/color] 6. Sweden[/color] - 18 [/color] 7. Russia[/color] - 11...

Made a neat little discovery. If you put wooden stemmed matches into a cup of turpentine and leave them to soak for about two or three minutes they become permanently waterproof. After I take them out of their turpentine bath I lay them out to dry ovenight on a sheet of newspaper. As...

http://www.nobel.se/chemistry/laureates/2003/index.html "for discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes" Peter Agre - Johns Hopkins University "for the discovery of water channels" Roderick MacKinnon - Rockefeller University "for structural and mechanistic studies of ion...

http://www.nobel.se/medicine/laureates/2003/index.html "for their discoveries concerning magnetic resonance imaging" Paul C. Lauterbur - University of Illinois Sir Peter Mansfield - University of Nottingham

Its a well known fact the Einstein didn't receive his nobel prize for Relativity but instead he got it for his work on the photo-electric effect. Why is this? Is it because Relativity was less creative than photo-electric effect?

I vote for Henry Miller, author of among many other books 'Tropic of Cancer'. He is as important and influential as Hemingway. Ok, his philosophy sometimes gets in the way of his writing and he can bang on a bit but anyone reading Tropic of Cancer knowing that it was written in the early 1930s...