Wolf Prize

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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…

Disentangling entanglement

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Scicomm Alain Aspect Albert Einstein Anton Zeilinger Boris Podolsky communication loophole detection loophole EPR paradox John Clauser John Stewart Bell Nathan Rosen Niels Bohr Nobel Prize for physics quantum entanglement Rober Hanson spooky action at a distance Wolf Prize

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&…