the theoretical foundation for Higgs mechanism was first discovered by Jeffrey Goldstone from MIT:http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nambu-Goldstone_boson
Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Englert and Higgs
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Re: Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Englert and Higgs
#72I'd like to take this opportunity to remind people of the (sometimes a little forgotten) other person name-checked in the Higgs Boson: Satyendra Nath Bose. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyendra_Nath_Bose He was an interesting chap!
It's probably worth bringing up a couple other famous Indian scientists such as Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Srinivasa Ramanujan, and Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman. These three folks have made major contributions to science and mathematics, in the same league as, say, Heisenberg, Bohr, or Riemann. And even though there are important phenomena or properties named after them (e.g. Raman spectroscopy, Chandrasekhar limit, etc.) as people they are far, far less well known than European scientists.
Re: Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Englert and Higgs
#73They say that professor Higgs is shy and not at all comfortable with the attention and almost as hard to find as his particle.
They couldn't contact him initially because he was away without a phone. If you want to be effective.... (He certainly isn't wasting part of his evening reading HN like me)
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#74is the nobel prize still the cornerstone of rewarding achievement in the sciences? sorry to be so snarky, but i am genuinely interested, having long lost any trust in the peace prize comittee[0]. not to speak of the economics prize (which is not really a nobel prize [1]) [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_Peace_Prize_laure... [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Memorial_Prize_in_Economi... edit: format…
Yes, the Nobel prize is still the creme de la creme of prizes (in physics).
Source: Me, a physics PhD student who has met a few Nobel laureates
P.S. It's amazing how much universities and people like to affiliate with Nobel laureates just because of their award, and not their science. When I was at a university where a professor won the Nobel prize, he gave a talk identical to one held the previous year. Before the prize, about 10 people showed up. After the prize, hundreds showed up and couldn't fit in the room.
Re: Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Englert and Higgs
#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ha. True. But, I'm not sure people know that a Boson is named after him at all and if they do I'd bet they assume (like I once did) that Bose was some German or Hungarian bloke. (Mind you, I also thought that the Bose of Bose Corporation[1] would have been a European rather than Indian descent, too. Clearly, I have some prejudice I need to work out). [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amar_Bose
That's funny because "böse" in German means "evil" or "nasty". I don't know if anybody has that surname, but I would suspect not.
Wikipedia mentions a couple of ‘von Bose’, and I have to admit that I don’t see any particularly tight link between ‘Bose’ and ‘böse’ – the umlaut does have a special pronunciation, after all.
Re: Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Englert and Higgs
#76is the nobel prize still the cornerstone of rewarding achievement in the sciences? sorry to be so snarky, but i am genuinely interested, having long lost any trust in the peace prize comittee[0]. not to speak of the economics prize (which is not really a nobel prize [1]) [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_Peace_Prize_laure... [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Memorial_Prize_in_Economi... edit: format…
Yes, the Nobel prize is still the creme de la creme of prizes (in physics). Source: Me, a physics PhD student who has met a few Nobel laureates P.S. It's amazing how much universities and people like to affiliate with Nobel laureates just because of their award, and not their science. When I was at a university where a professor won the Nobel prize, he gave a talk identical to one held the previous year. Before the p…
At Berkeley, Nobel laureates get a parking spot on campus.
Re: Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Englert and Higgs
#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ha. True. But, I'm not sure people know that a Boson is named after him at all and if they do I'd bet they assume (like I once did) that Bose was some German or Hungarian bloke. (Mind you, I also thought that the Bose of Bose Corporation[1] would have been a European rather than Indian descent, too. Clearly, I have some prejudice I need to work out). [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amar_Bose
That's funny because "böse" in German means "evil" or "nasty". I don't know if anybody has that surname, but I would suspect not.
That's funny because in the US, "bose" means crappy speakers with big marketing budget.
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it took you this long? They awarded it to Al Gore for climate change awareness (has alot to do with peace i guess?) Even worse, they have awarded it to supporters of terrorism(Arafat), and other violent types of people(Mandela).
Gandhi never won the prize.
One reason being he died unexpectedly (assassination). The Nobel Peace Prize also wasn't awarded that year due to no suitable living candidates, which can be considered an acknowledgement of him.
Re: Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Englert and Higgs
#79I'd like to take this opportunity to remind people of the (sometimes a little forgotten) other person name-checked in the Higgs Boson: Satyendra Nath Bose. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyendra_Nath_Bose He was an interesting chap!
It's probably worth bringing up a couple other famous Indian scientists such as Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Srinivasa Ramanujan, and Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman. These three folks have made major contributions to science and mathematics, in the same league as, say, Heisenberg, Bohr, or Riemann. And even though there are important phenomena or properties named after them (e.g. Raman spectroscopy, Chandrasekhar limit,…
I don't think those 3 are any less well-known than other physicists and mathematicians of similar accomplishments. Ramanujan, in particular, because of his romantic story, is far more well known than his influence might suggest. His intellect might well have been the equal of Riemann's, but one can't honestly say his contributions even approach Riemann's. The same goes for the the physicists - Bohr was one of the three or four most important physicists of the last century, and Heisenberg was one of the top 10, probably.
Re: Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Englert and Higgs
#80Anyone with more insight know if this was overdue, but finally awarded after confirmation last year at CERN, or if it was pushed forward while last year's work was fresh in people's minds?
Hawkins also holding out for recognition if anyone finds confirmation of Hawking Radiation.
Hawkins? You mean Hawking?