The Big Bang Theory

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Peter Higgs, self-promoter

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Culture Science C.R. Hagen Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Englert Francois Englert Gerald Guralnik Gerardus t Hooft Greenpeace Higgs Higgs boson Higgs mechanism Large Hadron Collider particle physics Peter Higgs Philip Warren Anderson Robert Brout Sheldon Cooper The Big Bang Theory Tom Kibble Wolf Prize

I was randomly rewatching The Big Bang Theory on Netflix today when I spotted this gem: Okay, maybe less a gem and more a shiny stone, but still. The screenshot, taken from the third episode of the s…

Why are the Nobel Prizes still relevant?

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Culture Op-eds Science Abhijit Banerjee Albert Einstein Appa Rao Podile Booker Prize Brian Keating Caltech Chien-Shiung Wu CV Raman Esther Duflo Fermilab Göran Hansson gender-based discrimination Hindutva Hugo Award impact factor Isaac Asimov John B Goodenough late capitalism Lise Meitner Margaret Atwood nationalism Nature journal Nobel laureates Nobel Prize prestige bias Prime Minister Narendra Modi sexism The Big Bang Theory Vera Rubin

Note: A condensed version of this post has been published in The Wire. Around this time last week, the world had nine new Nobel Prize winners in the sciences (physics, chemistry and medicine), all bu…