2010 Physics Nobel Prize (Graphene)
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2010 Physics Nobel Prize (Graphene)
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Re: 2010 Physics Nobel Prize (Graphene)
#2Here is the process of making graphene with a sticky tape -it was posted here a while ago.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=diy-graphen...
Re: 2010 Physics Nobel Prize (Graphene)
#3I really liked this quote at the end of the press release
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2010/pr...
"Playfulness is one of their hallmarks, one always learns something in the process and, who knows, you may even hit the jackpot. Like now when they, with graphene, write themselves into the annals of science."
Congrats to the winners and especially to Konstantin Novoselov who is one of youngest to win a Nobel at age 36.
Re: 2010 Physics Nobel Prize (Graphene)
#4I really liked this quote at the end of the press release http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2010/pr... "Playfulness is one of their hallmarks, one always learns something in the process and, who knows, you may even hit the jackpot. Like now when they, with graphene, write themselves into the annals of science." Congrats to the winners and especially to Konstantin Novoselov who is one of youngest to…
Geim's the guy who levitated the frog:
"Geim shared the 2000 Ig Nobel Prize with Sir Michael Berry of Bristol University, for levitating the frog. His award of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2010 made him the first person to win an Ig followed by the real version."
Badass. (Even if my physics past wants someone to win something big for work on silicates one day. Dammit, glasses are fascinating.)
Re: 2010 Physics Nobel Prize (Graphene)
#5Andre Geim is quite a character. He won the Ig Nobel Prize in 2000 for floating a frog (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ig_Nobel_Prize_winners#...).
Re: 2010 Physics Nobel Prize (Graphene)
#6Although I'm congratulating both of them , it's a prize for engineering achievement not a physics discovery. Shows how the physics field is stagnant.
Re: 2010 Physics Nobel Prize (Graphene)
#7Andre Geim is quite a character. He won the Ig Nobel Prize in 2000 for floating a frog ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ig_Nobel_Prize_winners#... ).
He also chose his hamster as co-author for one of his articles:
Re: 2010 Physics Nobel Prize (Graphene)
#8Although I'm congratulating both of them , it's a prize for engineering achievement not a physics discovery. Shows how the physics field is stagnant.
From Alfred Nobel's Will: "...The said interest shall be divided into five equal parts, which shall be apportioned as follows: one part to the person who shall have made the most important discovery or invention within the field of physics;..."
According to that a price for physics is awarded to both a discovery as well as an invention and this would be the latter.
Re: 2010 Physics Nobel Prize (Graphene)
#9Although I'm congratulating both of them , it's a prize for engineering achievement not a physics discovery. Shows how the physics field is stagnant.
Yes, it is more of an engineering achievement than a physics discovery, but I would not read much more into it. The nobel prize is very frequently given to more of an 'engineering' discovery, as it's goal is to be given to the achievements which benefit man the most.
Just look at several Nobel prizes. The invention of radio, the invention of special gas valves used in lighthouses,the invention of the cloud chamber, the invention of the laser, the invention of the ion trap, etc.
Physics is still very active, but unfortunately we can't be discovering QED everyday.
Re: 2010 Physics Nobel Prize (Graphene)
#10I really liked this quote at the end of the press release http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2010/pr... "Playfulness is one of their hallmarks, one always learns something in the process and, who knows, you may even hit the jackpot. Like now when they, with graphene, write themselves into the annals of science." Congrats to the winners and especially to Konstantin Novoselov who is one of youngest to…
Geim's the guy who levitated the frog: "Geim shared the 2000 Ig Nobel Prize with Sir Michael Berry of Bristol University, for levitating the frog. His award of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2010 made him the first person to win an Ig followed by the real version." Badass . (Even if my physics past wants someone to win something big for work on silicates one day. Dammit, glasses are fascinating.)
Here is some more info and videos http://www.ru.nl/hfml/research/levitation/diamagnetic/