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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2008
Arthur ( Score Rank: #23 based on predictions in the last 30 days ) Arthur  |  was scored on 08-Oct-2008 (44 days ago)
The names of the year's Nobel Laureates in Physics are announced during a press conference at the Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. The 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics will be announced on Tuesday, October 7, 11:45 a.m. CET.

Dr. Hawking will be one of the many physicists watching in hopes of greeting answers to some of physics' biggest questions when experimental data starts to stream from the collider. But he also has a dog in this fight. His 1974 theory on black holes could be experimentally proven - if the collider succeeds in creating black holes in the first place.

Who will get the Nobel Prize in Physics this year?
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  1. will101 will101 44 days ago
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    "Yoichiro Nambu, 87, a Tokyo-born physicist at the University of Chicago's Enrico Fermi Institute, will receive half the $1.4-million prize for his mathematical description of "spontaneous broken symmetry," which played a major role in development of the Standard Model of particle physics, which integrates elementary particles and the strong, weak and electromagnetic forces of nature.

    Makoto Kobayashi, 64, a researcher at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, or KEK, in Tsukuba, Japan, and Toshihide Maskawa, 68, of Kyoto University's Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics will share the other half of the award for their explanation of why the breakdown of elementary particles called kaons and B-mesons is not symmetrical, as scientists had once thought it should be. "

    Source: http://www.mercurynews.com/nationworl...
  2. black-shoulder black-shoulder 72 days ago
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    Dr. Hawking has been rumoured to be one of the favourites to win this year's price... but the one they make rumours about is usually NOT the one who will win. I have no clue who will be winning, but I'd say the chance of the favourite winning it is actually slim.
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