Nobel Prizes for Physics Awarded to Smart People 140
bobol6 writes "The 2002 Nobel Prize for Physics is out. The $1 Million is split two ways: Riccardo Giacconi gets half for building the first X-Ray telescopes, and Raymond Davis, Jr and Masatoshi Koshiba split the other half. Davis invented the water tank neutrino detector, and Koshiba used a more sophisticated one to discover neutrino oscillation. The original press release is available . News articles can be found at Science Daily and The New York Times. (Free Blah di Blah)"
Smart people eh? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Smart people eh? (Score:5, Funny)
The Golden Globes, meanwhile, struggle on (Score:5, Funny)
Ron Howard has repeatedly gone on record that his work on 'A Beautiful Mind' puts him in the appropriate Smart People category, but that is still in dispute. Judges point to his work in Happy Days as proof.
In other news... (Score:5, Funny)
People in the entire U.S., but especially the editors at Slashdot, were astounded and amazed by this announcement.
"I never even suspected" said chrisd, an editor at Slashdot.
The Dow rose 78 points today, largely in response to this announcement.
Re:Smart people eh? (Score:3, Funny)
That was not the Nobel prize, he got the Fields medal [st-and.ac.uk]...
Ig Noble Prizes awarded a few days ago (Score:4, Funny)
PHYSICS
Arnd Leike of the University of Munich, for demonstrating that beer froth obeys the mathematical Law of Exponential Decay. [REFERENCE: "Demonstration of the Exponential Decay Law Using Beer Froth," Arnd Leike, European Journal of Physics, vol. 23, January 2002, pp. 21-26.]
http://www.improb.com/ig/ig-pastwinners.html#ig
Re:title : dumbest ever (Score:5, Funny)
Ask again after the Peace prize is announced Thursday...
Re:Richard Feynman used to boast. . . (Score:2, Funny)
Re:title : dumbest ever (Score:3, Funny)
From this site [aip.org] comes this gem.
Note: Not the stage fright, but the daily handling of radium (considering she was probably the most informed person in the world on the safety or otherwise of radium!)
Of course, I could be applying my early 21st century knowledge to her early 20th century situation.
Highly intelligent? Yeah, sure!
Dumb? Absolutely!