2023 Breakthrough Prize winners announced
2 years, 3 months ago

2023 Breakthrough Prize winners announced

The Hindu  

The 2023 winners of the Breakthrough Prizes, dubbed the "Oscars of Science," were announced on Thursday and will split a total of more than $15 million. Quantum pioneers Charles Bennett, Gilles Brassard, David Deutsch, Peter Shor win the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. @MIT@UniofOxford@[email protected]/hapWqalcKi — Breakthrough September 22, 2022 Mr. Milner, a venture capitalist, is one of the founders of the prize along with Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, of Facebook and Sergey Brin of Google. The winners The Breakthrough Prize in mathematics was awarded to Daniel Spielman of Yale University for multiple discoveries in theoretical computer science and mathematics.

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The Shifting Sands of Science: How the Nobel Prize Debate Reflects a Changing World
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The Shifting Sands of Science: How the Nobel Prize Debate Reflects a Changing World

Hindustan Times  

The Nobel Prize debate continues to rage on, with this year's awards highlighting the challenges and complexities of defining what constitutes a scientific discipline. While the prestigious awards do recognize major discoveries, the vast majority of researchers who dedicate their lives to cutting-edge scientific research will never hold a Nobel. Anirban Mahapatra explores the cultural and historical significance of the …

Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded to trio who used AI to build proteins, the building blocks of life
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Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded to trio who used AI to build proteins, the building blocks of life

LA Times  

From left, American biochemist David Baker and DeepMind Technology’s John Jumper and Demis Hassabis have been awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry. Three scientists who discovered powerful techniques to predict and even design novel proteins — the building blocks of life — were awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday. The prize was awarded to David Baker, who works …

Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded to scientists for work on proteins
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Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded to scientists for work on proteins

NPR  

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Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023: Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus & Alexei Ekimov win award for discovery of quantum dots
1 year, 2 months ago

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023: Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus & Alexei Ekimov win award for discovery of quantum dots

Hindustan Times  

The Nobel Prize 2023 in Chemistry has been awarded to Moungi G Bawendi, Louis E Brus and Alexei I Ekimov "for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots.” Nobel Prize winner Moungi G Bawendi, Louis E Brus and Alexei I Ekimov. “The Nobel Laureates in Chemistry 2023 have succeeded in producing particles so small that their properties are determined by …

Nobel Prize in Physics 2023: Three scientists win for research on electrons in flashes of light
1 year, 2 months ago

Nobel Prize in Physics 2023: Three scientists win for research on electrons in flashes of light

The Hindu  

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Nobel Prize in Physics 2023: Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier win for study of electron dynamics
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Nobel Prize in Physics 2023: Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier win for study of electron dynamics

Hindustan Times  

Nobel Prize 2023 in Physics has been awarded to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier “for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter.” They were acknowledged for their exploration of the world of electrons within atoms and molecules. Nobel Prize 2023 in Physics won by Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and …

3 scientists win Nobel Prize in physics for glimpsing electrons during split seconds
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3 scientists win Nobel Prize in physics for glimpsing electrons during split seconds

LA Times  

The winners of the 2023 Nobel Prize in physics, from left: Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier. “Once you can control and understand electrons, you have taken a very big step forward.” The three honorees’ experiments “have given humanity new tools for exploring the world of electrons inside atoms and molecules,” according to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, …

Nobel Prize 2022: 3 chemists who made molecules 'click' awarded
2 years, 2 months ago

Nobel Prize 2022: 3 chemists who made molecules 'click' awarded

India TV News  

Three scientists from the United States and Denmark were jointly awarded this year's Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing a way of “snapping molecules together” that can be used to design better medicines. Sharpless, who previously won a Nobel Prize in 2001 and is now the fifth person to receive the award twice, first proposed the idea for connecting molecules …

Nobel Prize for experiments that demystify ‘spooky action at a distance’
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Nobel Prize for experiments that demystify ‘spooky action at a distance’

The Hindu  

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Three scientists share Physics Nobel for quantum mechanics
2 years, 2 months ago

Three scientists share Physics Nobel for quantum mechanics

The Hindu  

The Nobel Prize in physics for 2022 is being awarded to Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger for their work on quantum mechanics, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on October 4, 2022. The 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities, and pioneering quantum information …

Meet the 3 scientists who were awarded Nobel Prize in physics 2022
2 years, 2 months ago

Meet the 3 scientists who were awarded Nobel Prize in physics 2022

Hindustan Times  

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2022 was awarded to Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger on Tuesday at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. The scientists were given the most prestigious award in science owing to their "experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science.” Nobel Prize in Physics …

Nobel Prize 2022 | John Clauser, Alain Aspect, and Anton Zeilinger are being awarded Physics Nobel for their groundbreaking experiments
2 years, 2 months ago

Nobel Prize 2022 | John Clauser, Alain Aspect, and Anton Zeilinger are being awarded Physics Nobel for their groundbreaking experiments

The Hindu  

The Nobel Prize in physics for 2022 is being awarded to Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger for their work on quantum mechanics, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on October 4, 2022. The 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities, and pioneering quantum information …

Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to three scientists
2 years, 2 months ago

Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to three scientists

Al Jazeera  

Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger are awarded for discoveries in the field of quantum mechanics. Alain Aspect of France, John Clauser of the United States and Austria’s Anton Zeilinger have won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics for “experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science”, the award-giving body said on …

Three quantum information scientists named joint winners of Nobel Prize in Physics
2 years, 2 months ago

Three quantum information scientists named joint winners of Nobel Prize in Physics

ABC  

Three scientists have jointly won this year's Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on quantum information science that has significant applications, for example in the field of encryption. Key points: Quantum information science is a relatively new field of study, combining quantum physics with information science The three winning physicists have explored how two quantum particles are able to …

Explaining the science behind this year’s Nobel Prizes for Chemistry and Physics | The Hindu In Focus podcast
4 years, 2 months ago

Explaining the science behind this year’s Nobel Prizes for Chemistry and Physics | The Hindu In Focus podcast

The Hindu  

In this second part of a two-episode series on the Nobel Prizes, we go into the Chemistry and Physics 2020 awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna, for discovering one of gene technology’s sharpest tools: the CRISPR/Cas9 genetic scissors. And for physics, British mathematician-physicist Roger Penrose received half of this year’s prize “for the discovery that black hole formation is …

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