Nobel prize Definition and 128 Threads

Too bad I could not figure out how to get the figure here directly. http://datarep.tumblr.com/image/99141208620

Well, this was awarded to Condensed matter physics this year, so I think this is the appropriate thread to post my question... So far I've only read through the official site's press release ( https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2016/press.html ), however it is still...

The Nobel prize in chemistry for 2016 has been awarded "for the design and synthesis of molecular machines." These are fascinating constructions made up of just a few molecules, so they are the smallest machines possible. It is far from trivial to get these things working, especially since...

The Nobel prize in physics is being announced in 4 minutes. Apparently they will be on time this year according to the webcast at: http://www.nobelprize.org This probably means that they have already spoken to the laureate(s).

I just heard about this on Facebook. CONGRATULATE YOSHINORI OHSUMI, awarded the 2016 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine. "for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy" I have no idea what an "autophagy" is. But if someone wins a Nobel Prize for it, I should probably google that. After my...

Articles like this will generally give more rise to crackpots everywhere: https://www.authorea.com/users/8850/articles/117724/_show_article My email is already in pain :frown:

Why didn't Einstein get Nobel Prize for ' Relativity' Has anyone else been awarded Nobel Prize for 'Relativity'?

what do you think the nobel prize need in physics for next years 2016-2017-2018

For example your dying grandfather has made a breakthough discovery worthy of a Nobel Prize but he was dying and surely won't get a Nobel and he wants you to share it to the world and claim it as your own discovery. Would you still get the Nobel if the committee would find out it is your...

Please mention the cases where the basis for the Nobel Prize was incorrect.. if so, were they reversed? For example. Born was awarded the Nobel Prize for his probability interpretation.. that amplitude square is the probability of the say electron appearing there. But a person Neumaier claimed...

The deadline for nominations for the 2016 Nobel Prize was the end of January. Since the detection and peer-review of the paper was most certainly done beforehand, who do you think is in line for the 2016 Nobel? My bets are on the three gents who spoke/got mention this morning in Washington...

If hypothesised planet nine is really discovered in the outskirts of our Solar system, will M. E. Brown and K. Batygin have a chance to win the Nobel prize in physics or is this too much of an old hat for the Nobel-commitee?

Today we will learn who wins the 2015 Nobel Prize in physics. The announcement will be available online at 11.45 CET at the earliest (depending on whether or not they have taken a decision and been able to inform the laureates). Link to announcement...

Next week (Oct 5-12), the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences will announce the annual winners of science's most prestigious award, the Nobel Prize. In this thread, let's throw out some guesses as to who might win. Here are Thomson-Reuter's annual predictions. My predictions: Physiology and...

John Nash died in a car crash today apparently. He was the subject of the very popular film A Beautiful Mind. I'm not sure how much of his work is still known but I am very interested in game theory and the concept of Nash Equilibrium is still used very often in what I read.

"Val Fitch, who shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physics for work that revealed a surprising ambivalence in the laws of nature and helped explain why the collision of matter and antimatter has not destroyed everything in the universe, died on Thursday at his home in Princeton, NJ. He was 91...

why nobel prize is awarded for blue led invention even though it was invented before? i bought this blue led 2 years back i.e on 2012,

... will be announced tomorrow, October 7. Does anyone want to make a guess as to who it will be, or which field?

http://www.improbable.com/ig/winners/#ig2014 https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/trol/7/3/7_147/_pdf

You have probably heard many times that the closest analogue of the Nobel Prize for mathematics is the Fields Medal. But today I realized that it is not. There is a much closer analogue - the Abel prize. In particular, both the Nobel and the Abel prize are about $1.5 million, while the Fields...

I guess you all know that the 2013 Nobel prize in physics was awarded to François Englert and Peter Higgs for proposing the Higgs mechanism. But it was delayed till people became sure of its validity through the observation of Higgs boson.Now it just makes me wonder if people doubted Higgs...

"..his equations indicated that atoms could indeed form a regularly repeating lattice in time, returning to their initial arrangement only after discrete (rather than continuous) intervals, thereby breaking time symmetry..." I was wondering about the theory's validity and if you had heard of...

The 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics was just awarded to Francois Englert and Peter W. Higgs. Why were they chosen over Robert Brout, Gerald Guralnik, Richard Hagen and Tom Kibble who published similar results at about the same time.

I didnt find a thread here on the subject so I thought i would create one. The medicine prizes are out its 2 americans and a german for discovering how cells transport nutrients/information. the swedish professor explaining seemed very excited and made it sound very vital. Any predictions...

Hey I got a quick question, one of my friends says that he made an experiment in which he can definatley prove that the electron is not a particle :o I think it's poppycock but he says once I see the experiment there is no way I will disagree with him. He wants credit for it and thus...

Although I can't nominate myself for a Nobel Prize, I was wondering I any distinguished scientist would oppose such a nomination. Here are the scientific propositions. Astronauts are able to float when in space are but inside their space shuttle. But they are also able to breath oxygen...

Who do you think will win the prize this year? What are your predictions? Do you think it's Higgs hands down? http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/19/idUS36510+19-Sep-2012+HUG20120919 predicts that it'll be Bennett, Brassard and Wootters. I'm not so sure.

Are there any physicist alive today who you believe should have a nobel prize already?

Now, the Nobel Prize in chemistry is out and it has been given for the discovery of quasi-crystals. I consider quasi-crystals to be quite a fascinating kind of matter although I know very little about it. Maybe we can discuss some points. What I find quite striking although it doesn't...

In this thread I would like you to add some more detailed information on what the people behind the new physics prize have actually found, what the interpretation is and where the relevant papers are. The redshifts of supernovaes of type 1a are redshifted in some peculiar way that is...

"for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae" Congratulations! http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2011/press.html" http://svtplay.se/v/2549924/nobel_2011/"...

So the announcements are next week. Is there any information public on who are the (hottest) candidates for the prize for physics?

Hi, What degrees and diploma must one finish before one can be nominated for the Nobel Prize? Are all Awardees since the 1900 holding PhDs? Discovery is not planned but often accidental. What if an undergraduate or just a graduate of Bachelor of Science in Physics accidentally discovered...

Just curious...

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2010 goes to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre_Geim" ! The Nobel Prize in Physics 2010 was awarded jointly to Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov "for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene". Congrats! [/PLAIN]...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101005/ap_on_sc/eu_nobel_physics http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2010/announcement.html#

http://www.boston.com/news/local/maine/articles/2010/04/16/harvard_professors_nobel_prize_stolen/" The thief sounds like a "real genius" too, hope Dr Gluber gets his Nobel back soon, has this ever happened before ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_J._Glauber" Rhody... :mad:

Okay I know the woman Marie Curie, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 with her husband, Pierre Curie. But seriously, is there not one who won the prize by herself... ALONE?! Guess what I'm thinking :devil:

Hawking radiation is almost certainly not going to win him a Nobel prize, because experimental detection is beyond our technology. But how about the singularity theorem which he and Roger Penrose proved? This theorem convinced the physics community that black hole would indeed form in realistic...

At first I thought physicists, but then that would exclude too many for no good reason, but still excludes the scientists who haven't been around since nobel prizes have been given out.

Hey guys, I did my bachelor in electronics and telecommunication engineering. I am planning to do MS and phd probably in electrical field. I have just one quick question..can somebody doing electrical engineering can win nobel prize in physics. I am sure they might consider it as applied...

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009 was awarded "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome"! http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2009/

Just guess and imagine... Nomination for the Nobel Prize in Physics http://nobelprize.org/nomination/physics/ Nomination to the Nobel Prize in Physics is by invitation only. The Nobel Committee for Physics sends confidential forms to persons who are competent and qualified to nominate...

I'm kind of confused on how someone can receive a Nobel Prize in Physics if they had only devolped a theory. For example, if someone can show the use of mathematics to resolve a problem in physics (An example might be the unification of the forces) but lacks experimental evidence can they still...

I find it funny when various pundits and news reporters in the media constantly complained that the United states is falling behind in new developments in science and technology , and which to a certain extent, there is some validity to this claim , observing that the scientific literacy in the...

they've also been involved in book publishing: http://www.russiatoday.com/features/news/35742 & here's RIA Novosti's coverage, which is more in-depth: http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20090119/119705315.html

I've always enjoyed reading Krugman's columns, but I wasn't aware he did work at this level. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27159654/

And the Nobel prize went to... the discovery of the green fluorescent protein (GFP). http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2008/

Why is it difficult for an Electrical Engineer to earn a nobel prize in Physics while Physicists get it all? Further, what's the difference between experimental physics and engineering?

Hi, I'm doing a report for someone who'll interview a recent Physics Nobel prize winner. Part of the report involves gathering questions that science undergraduates/graduates might want to ask him. I wonder if this forum is a good place to get them. Any question will be appreciated and you...