Nobel Prize Physics

Berkeley Physicist Shares 2011 Nobel Prize

AP | Posted 12.04.2011

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BERKELEY, Calif. — Saul Perlmutter won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday, but it wasn't until the California scientist was awakened by a teleph...

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Amazing Discovery Wins Nobel Prize

AP | MALCOLM RITTER and KARL RITTER | Posted 12.04.2011

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NEW YORK — Three U.S.-born scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for discovering that the universe is expanding at an accelerating p...

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Duo Awarded Physics Nobel Prize For Carbon Breakthrough

AP | MALCOLM RITTER and KARL RITTER | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — It is the thinnest and strongest material known to mankind – no thicker than a single atom and 100 times tougher than steel. Co...

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Where Are the Chinese Nobel Prize Winners in Science?

Howard Steven Friedman | Posted 05.25.2011

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No one born in the PRC has won the Chemistry or Physiology/Medicine yet, and all four of the PRC-born winners of the Physics prize received their graduate training and did their prize-winning research outside of China.

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Thinnest Material Bags the Thickest Prize

Santhosh Mathew, PhD | Posted 05.25.2011

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Santhosh Mathew, PhD

When the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced the Nobel prize in physics for 2010, it wasn't for something like a high- tech lab product or any uncanny theoretical construction.

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Charles Kao, Willard Boyle And George Smith: 3 Americans Share 2009 Nobel Prize For Physics

AP | MALCOLM RITTER | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK -- The next time you snap a digital photo and post it to Facebook, you can probably thank the three men who won the Nobel Prize in physics Tu...

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