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Awards week
I went into this year’s Nobel Prize Announcements Week a little confused about why I was excited. For me the prizes have always highlighted the recipients’ work, and that’s likelier than not a field of study I’ve probably never heard of … Continue reading
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Tagged CRISPR/Cas9, INO, multidisciplinarity, Nobel Prize, Sahitya Akademi, Svetlana Alexievich, Youyou Tu
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The Nobel intent
About three weeks from now, the Nobel Foundation will announce the winners of the 2015 Nobel Prizes. Every year, commentators, opinionators and enthusiasts try to guess who will win the awards – some of them have become famous because they’ve been … Continue reading
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Tagged Bose-Einstein condensate, Daulat Kothari, Gunnar Jahn, Meghnad Saha, Mohandas Gandhi, Nobel Prize, Satyendra Nath Bose
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Would you just calm down about the Bose in the boson?
July, 2012 – A Higgs boson-like entity is spotted at the Large Hadron Collider. Indians decry the lack of celebration of S.N. Bose, the Bengali physicist whom bosons are named for. January, 2013 – The particle found at the LHC is confirmed … Continue reading
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Tagged Francois Englert, Higgs mechanism, Nobel Prize, Peter Higgs, Satyendra Nath Bose
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