Nobel laureates in Physics Current Affairs, GK & News
Nobel Prize for Physics, 2020
The Nobel Prize, 2020 for Physics has been awarded to Andrea M Ghez, Roger Penrose and Reinhard Genzel for their research on black holes. Highlights Roger Penrose was honored for the discovery that black hole formation is robust prediction of theory of relativity. In simple words, theory of relativity led to the discovery of black ..
Month: Current Affairs - October, 2020
Category: Awards, Persons & Places in News • Persons in News
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Russian physicist and Nobel Prize laureate Dr. Zhores Alferov passes away
Dr. Zhores Alferov (88), a Russian physicist and Nobel Prize laureate, has passed away on 2nd of March in St Petersburg. In 2000, Alferov received the Nobel Prize in Physics together with US scientists Jack Kilby and Herbert Kroemer, for developing semiconductor heterostructures used in high-speed-and optoelectronics. He was the first Russian to win a ..
Topics: Dmitri Z. Garbuzov • Herbert Kroemer • Heterojunction • Ioffe Institute • Nobel laureates in Physics • Physicists • Russian Academy of Sciences • Russian scientists • Science and technology in Russia • Zhores Alferov
2018 Nobel Prize in Physics awarded
American scientist Arthur Ashkin, French engineer Gerard Mourou and Canadian professor Donna Strickland have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for their work in the field of laser physics. Dr. Ashkin has been awarded the Prize “for the optical tweezers and their application to biological systems. Dr. Mourou and Dr. Strickland have been awarded ..
Topics: Arthur Ashkin • Donna Strickland • Gérard Mourou • Laser science • Maria Goeppert Mayer • Nobel laureates in Physics • Nobel Prize in Physics • Optical tweezers • Optics • Physicists • Physics • Tweezers
Marie Curie voted as most influential woman in history as per recent Readers of BBC History magazine poll
Nobel prize winning scientist Marie Curie was the most influential woman in this poll. The magazine ranked Polish born Curie at the top of a list of 100 women who changed the world, for her role in treating cancer.
Topics: Curie Institute • Ève Curie • French people • Marie Curie • Nobel laureates • Nobel laureates in Physics • Nobel Prize • Physical sciences • Radioactivity
2017 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly awarded to three US scientists – Rainer Weiss, Kip S. Thorne and Barry C. Barish
The 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics has been jointly awarded to three US scientists – Rainer Weiss, Kip S. Thorne and Barry C. Barish – for the detection of gravitational waves. The ripples were predicted by Albert Einstein and are a fundamental consequence of his General Theory of Relativity. The winners are members of the ..
Topics: Barry Barish • Gravitational-wave astronomy • Guggenheim Fellows • Kip Thorne • LIGO • Natural sciences • Nobel laureates in Physics • Particle physicists • Physical sciences • Physics • Rainer Weiss