Friday, July 13, 2007

Nobel collection

My friends Dolores, Markus, and I are making a (totally useless and childish) list of Nobel prize winners, that is the number of Nobel prize winners we've seen so far (a more stringent variant includes the need to shake hands). Anyway, my list increased by one unit yesterday at the cafeteria after I finished my pasta dish, when an old man wanted me to move away so that He could have a seat. Markus was fair enough to tell me this impatient not to say impolite person was Carlo Rubbia, whom I had not seen yet, surprisingly. For non-experts, he got the Nobel in '84 with van der Meer for the discovery of the Hig... nope sorry the Z0/W weak bosons. He's one of the few CERN's Nobel laureates.

My list now includes, in alphabetical order: G.Charpak, C.Cohen-Tannoudji, M.Gell-Mann, R.J.Glauber, T.Haensch, T.D.Lee, B.Mottelson, N.F.Ramsey, C.Rubbia, J.Steinberger, G.'t Hooft, S.Ting, F.Wilczek, and last but certainly not least, C.N.Yang (14 in total, yet I have a doubt concerning Ting). I regret this list is only made of Physics Nobel prize winners, I'd like to see Nobels in other fields as well!

Many more could be added quite "easily" I believe, such as: Glashow, Gross, Perl, Smoot, van der Meer, Weinberg, Wilson, ...

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