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Disastrous hype

Nov 1, 2019 2 min read

This is one of the worst press releases accompanying a study I've seen: The headline and the body appear to have nothing to do with the study itself, which explores the creative properties of an…

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

Oct 6, 2019 7 min read

Culture Science Abdul Kalam Abdus Salam Abdus Salam ICTP Ahmadiya sect Benito Mussolini Enrico Fermi Nishan-e-Imtiaz Nobel Prize for physics Nobel Prizes Pakistan religious presecution Srinivasa Ramanujan Steven Weinberg theoretical physics Zia-ul-Haq Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto

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

Uncategorized Francois Englert Gerald Guralnik Higgs boson Nobel Prize for physics Peter Higgs Physical Review Letters primacy Satyendra Nath Bose theoretical physics Tom Kibble

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…