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The question of Abdus Salam 'deserving' his Nobel

Aug 3, 2022 4 min read

Peter Woit has blogged about an oral history interview with theoretical physicist Sheldon Glashow published in 2020 by the American Institute of Physics. (They have a great oral history of physics ser…

The Nobel intent

Mar 5, 2020 1 min read

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You've probably tired of this but I can't. The Nobel Prize folks just sent out a newsletter ahead of Women's Day, on March 8, describing the achievements of female laureates of each of the…

Science and the scientist

Oct 10, 2019 1 min read

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Didier Queloz and Michel Mayor won the 2019 Nobel Prize for physics for discovering a famous exoplanet (51 Pegasi b) in 1995. Their claim was first verified by a top astronomer at the time named Geoff…

A revolutionary exoplanet

Oct 10, 2019 4 min read

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In 1992, Aleksander Wolszczan and Dale Frail became the first astronomers to publicly announce that they had discovered the first planets outside the Solar System, orbiting the dense core of a dead st…

Disentangling entanglement

Oct 8, 2019 9 min read

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There has been considerable speculation if the winners of this year's Nobel Prize for physics, due to be announced at 2.30 pm IST on October 8, will include Alain Aspect and Anton Zeilinger. They&…

Review: ‘Salam – The First ****** Nobel Laureate’ (2018)

Oct 6, 2019 7 min read

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Awards are elevated by their winners. For all of the Nobel Prizes’ flaws and shortcomings, they are redeemed by what its laureates choose to do with them. To this end, the Pakistani physicist and acti…

Gerald Guralnik (1936-2014)

Jun 5, 2014 4 min read

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Of the six scientists who came up with the idea of a Higgs boson in the mid-1960s, independently or in collaboration with others, I've met all of one. Tom Kibble was at the Institute of Mathematic…