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Announcement of 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics

Posted on October 10, 2020 by sonic

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 was divided, one half awarded to Roger Penrose “for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity”, the other half jointly to Reinhard Genzel and Andrea … Continue reading →

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Announcement of 2016 Nobel Prizes

Posted on October 23, 2016 by sonic

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2016 Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir J. Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Feringa “for the design and synthesis of molecular machines” The Nobel Prize in Physics 2016 David J. Thouless, F. Duncan M. Haldane and J. Michael … Continue reading →

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Announcement of 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics

Posted on December 16, 2013 by sonic

8th October 2013 Congratulations to Professor Peter Higgs and Professor Francois Englert for the Nobel Prize in Physics 2013. “For the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and … Continue reading →

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News and Such

Posted on December 16, 2013 by sonic

Omicron crisis: Update: 19th December 2021 Two graphs below showing my computed trajectory for the omicron variant infection in the UK fitted to UK data. The latter are probably serious under-estimates as many are showing no symptoms and there is poor reporting … Continue reading →

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Outreach: some talks in 2012

Posted on October 2, 2012 by sonic

6.30 p.m., November 19th, 2012: Royal Observatory at Greenwich Flamsteed Astronomical Society Remote Exploration of rocky planets: craters to smart dust Prof John Barker 10.30 a.m.,November 27th, 2012  Jordanhill Parish Church Kelvin Probus Club, Glasgow A question of Cosmology Prof … Continue reading →

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Higgs Announcement

Posted on July 4, 2012 by sonic

4th July, 2012 CERN reports that the Large Hadron Collider has indeed found evidence for a new particle consistent with the Higgs boson predicted by the Standard Model. I obtained this photo of Peter Higgs as a screen capture from … Continue reading →

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In search of Higgs

Posted on May 15, 2012 by sonic

The link gives an excellent account of the LHC search for Higgs in cartoon form from PHD comics: Higgs Boson explained by Cartoon    

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