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Quantum of confusion [bioephemera]Robert Crease observes at Physicsworld that the upcoming James Bond film, Quantum of Solace, is only one of many instances - some inaccurate or misleading - of "quantum" in our cultural discourse. To explain the ubiquity of the word, Crease invokes James Clerk Maxwell's observation that... |
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Contest Winner Could Turn Things Around For Women In Science [Tests And Trials]Congratulations to Melissa Rey, 14, of Parkway Central Middle School in Chesterfield, MO! She won the America's Top Young Scientist competition. She was challenged on her knowledge of space-related themes: jet propulsion, repair of the Hubble Space Telescope, Martian topography and how to simulat... |
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Nobel Prize in Physics 2008 [The Quantum Pontiff]And the Nobel prize in Physics 2008 goes to...Yoichiro Nambu (1/2), Makoto Kobayashi (1/4), and Toshihide Maskawa (1/4) "for discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics" and "for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts th... |
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Particle Physicists Share the Physics Nobelsomegeekynick writes "The 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics has been jointly awarded to Yoichiro Nambu of the University of Chicago 'for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics.' and Makoto Kobayashi of the KEK lab and Toshihide Maskawa of the Yukawa Inst... |
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Nobel Prize In Physics For (Beautiful) Symmetry Breaking Discoveries(Photo from MSNBC by Kenneth Libbrecht) Today, the Nobel Prize in Physics was announced for important discoveries in the field of quantum physics. Yoichiro Nambu at Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, US, shares the prize with Makoto Kobayashi at the High Energy Accelerator Resear... |
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Physics Nobel to Particle Theory [Uncertain Principles]The 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics has been announced. Half will go to Yoichiro Nambu "for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics," with the other half split between Makoto Kobayahi and Toshihide Maskawa, "for the discovery of the origin of ... |
