Nobel Prizes
Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2013 5:06 pmThey`ve been coming out all week, the Peace Prize (aka the Invitation to Assassinate Obama cuz he didn`t deserve shit prize) is out tomorrow.
Biology is for vesicle research. Cell biologists are all over the prizes, I was still giddy from last year when someone in my field won. Now we are back to the yawnfest.
Chemistry is for hybridizing two fields of physics. Using Newtonian physics and chemical models to model most of a reaction, but using quantum chemistry to model the actual reaction center. Very strong prize this year. I don`t know enough about the computer models and whether or not these individuals were the right ones but the results that these models give us are invaluable (biochemical reactions including enzymology).
The big one is all over my local paper right after the article on `Mayor defends audit`. The higgs boson. not a surprise.
The real surprise was in Literature (aka the way too many Nords Prize). Alice Munro is the first Nobel laureate whom I have read before she became a laureate. Yay.
Biology is for vesicle research. Cell biologists are all over the prizes, I was still giddy from last year when someone in my field won. Now we are back to the yawnfest.
Chemistry is for hybridizing two fields of physics. Using Newtonian physics and chemical models to model most of a reaction, but using quantum chemistry to model the actual reaction center. Very strong prize this year. I don`t know enough about the computer models and whether or not these individuals were the right ones but the results that these models give us are invaluable (biochemical reactions including enzymology).
The big one is all over my local paper right after the article on `Mayor defends audit`. The higgs boson. not a surprise.
The real surprise was in Literature (aka the way too many Nords Prize). Alice Munro is the first Nobel laureate whom I have read before she became a laureate. Yay.