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6 unusual facts about Nobel prize in physics


2006 California Golden Bears football team

Before the game, the Cal student section gave a raucous tribute to Nobel Prize winner George Smoot, who had just won a few days earlier for his research on the Big Bang.

Atomic Energy of Canada Limited

Throughout the 1950s the NRX was used by many researchers in the pioneering fields of neutron condensed matter physics, including Dr. Bertram Brockhouse, who shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in developing the neutron scattering techniques.

Dead Man's Letters

The main character, played by Rolan Bykov, is a Nobel Prize in Physics laureate, who tries to survive and helps a small group of children and adults survive by staying with them in the basement of the former museum of history.

Lawrence Hall of Science

In 2003, following the death of Lawrence’s widow, Molly Lawrence, the Lawrence family chose the Lawrence Hall of Science to house his 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Nobel Prize in Physics

In 1900, the Nobel Foundation's newly created statutes were promulgated by King Oscar II.

Robert A. Millikan House

The Robert A. Millikan House is the former home of American physicist Robert A. Millikan, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1923.


Beyond Einstein World Wide Webcast

During the course of the event, there were live connections with various Nobel Prize winners in multiple international institutes, including the Exploratorium, Fermilab, Imperial College London, Broomsfield Science Museum Jerusalem and National Science Center Taipei.

Dudley R. Herschbach

Herschbach has also lent his voice to the animated television show The Simpsons for the episode "Treehouse of Horror XIV" where he is seen presenting the Nobel Prize in Physics to Professor Frink.

Eric Ash

His Ph.D. supervisor was Dennis Gabor, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, and his thesis was published as Electron Interaction Effects (1952).

FM Towns

The name "FM Towns" is derived from the codename the system was assigned while in development, "Townes"; this was chosen as an homage to Charles Hard Townes, one of the winners of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics, following a custom of Fujitsu at the time to codename PC products after Nobel prize winners.

Georges Charpak

Georges Charpak was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1992 "for his invention and development of particle detectors, in particular the multiwire proportional chamber", with affiliations to both École supérieure de physique et de chimie industrielles (ESPCI) and CERN.

Johannes Stark

In 1919, he won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his "discovery of the Doppler effect in canal rays and the splitting of spectral lines in electric fields" (the latter is known as the Stark effect).

Neutron trail

She toured various key experimental areas including the CERN Control Centre, ATLAS, the SM18 magnet test facility, and ISOLDE; met with Nobel Prize-winning physicist and former director of CERN Carlo Rubbia; and joined in a discussion with CERN’s ConCERNed for Humanity Club founders and guests.

Nobel Committee

The Nobel Committees for four of the prizes, physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, and literature, are working bodies within their prize awarding institutions, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, and the Swedish Academy.

Wallace, Nova Scotia

Wallace is the birthplace of Simon Newcomb, the astronomer and mathematician, and the hometown of figure skater John Mattatall as well as the retirement residence of 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics co-winner Willard Boyle co-inventor of the charge-coupled device or the CCD imaging chip at the heart of digital cameras, and Raymond Legend of the EASHL Hartford Whalers.


see also

Cloud chamber

The bubble chamber was invented by Donald A. Glaser of the United States in 1952, and for this, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1960.

George Paget Thomson

In addition to winning the Nobel Prize in Physics, Thomson was knighted in 1943.

McMaster Faculty of Science

Many discoveries have been made at McMaster University such as the development of neutron spectroscopy by Bertram Brockhouse which earned him a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1994.

Robert Delbourgo

His Ph.D. was obtained under the supervision of Professor Abdus Salam (who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979).