Tag: NobelPrize
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In praise of Roger Penrose
Roger Penrose has been awarded a share in the Nobel Prize for physics and I could not be more pleased. It is not that I have met him or even attended a lecture by him and nor do we even see him much on TV – but I owe him a debt for his insight…
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It’s official: we’re getting bigger all the time says Nobel Committee
The decision to award this year’s Nobel Prize for Physics to three astrophysicists who, through measuring the brightness of distant supernovae showed that the expansion of the universe is accelerating, is simply the highest possible confirmation of what most if not all in the field have accepted for a decade or more. That idea is…
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