Sentences with phrase «physics prize awarded»

This year they included the physics prize awarded to Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish and Kip Thorne for the development of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory (LIGO), and the subsequent direct detection of gravitational waves.

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A special feature keeping us up to date with issues of science and religion TEMPLETON WINNER, MIND AND MATHEMATICS In mid-March it was announced that this year's winner of the Templeton Prize — an extremely valuable prize awarded annually in recognition of, and promotion of, work for «research or discoveries about spiritual realities» — is Fr Michael Heller, a 72 - yr - old Polish priest and physics professor.

TEMPLETON WINNER In mid-March it was announced that this year's winner of the Templeton Prize — an extremely valuable prize awarded annually in recognition of, and promotion of, work for «research or discoveries about spiritual realities» — is Fr Michael Heller, a 72 - yr - old Polish priest and physics professor.

In 2006, the nobel prize for physics was awarded to two american scientists who PROVED that one aspect of the Big Bang «Theory» is absolutely correct.

The peace prize has gotten around the limitation by awarding the prize to an organization rather than an individual, and Norden says that the «physicists have been tempted... to give it to a whole institution,» such as CERN, the European laboratory for particle physics near Geneva, Switzerland, but the Swedish Academy of Sciences, which awards the physics and chemistry prizes, «will not allow that.»

The Fundamental Physics prize has again been awarded to sophisticated mathematical speculation disconnected from experimental evidence.

In a stunning and premature decision that is a first in the 113 year history of the august institution, the Nobel Prize Committee in Stockholm today announced the awarding of the 2013 Nobel prize for Physics to the Higgs Boson.

He co-founded the Breakthrough Prize, which recognizes important advancements in physics, life sciences and math by awarding $ 3 million prizes in each category.

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the first of many physics Nobel prizes awarded on the back of it.

Seven prizes, each worth $ 3 million, were awarded to the leading lights of fundamental physics, mathematics and life sciences at the Breakthrough Prize last night

In 1921, the Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded no physics prize.

The prizes, first awarded in 2012, recognize research pioneers in life sciences, physics, and mathematics.

This month for example we have seen U.K. scientists awarded Nobel prizes both in Physics and medicine, as well as Economics.

I'm so excited that this year's Nobel prize in physics has been awarded for the Brout - Englert - Higgs mechanism, and that British...

When the 2014 Nobel Prize in physics was awarded this October to three Japanese - born scientists for the invention of blue light emitting diodes (LEDs), the prize committee declared LED lamps would light the 21st century.

In the end, our judging panel awarded the grand prize of $ 1000 to Saul Propp, a University of Oregon physics Ph.D. student, who described using the «atomic blender» of electron vortices to mix nanoscale substances.

Alex is a nationally known science writer whose awards include top journalism prizes from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Geophysical Union, the American Institute of Physics, and the National Association of Science Writers.

The prize includes a $ 6,000 cash award endowed by former PPPL Director Ronald Davidson, who donated to Princeton University a portion of the gift he received as the 1993 recipient of the Award for Excellence in Science, Education and Physics from the Kaul Foundation in Tampa, Floaward endowed by former PPPL Director Ronald Davidson, who donated to Princeton University a portion of the gift he received as the 1993 recipient of the Award for Excellence in Science, Education and Physics from the Kaul Foundation in Tampa, FloAward for Excellence in Science, Education and Physics from the Kaul Foundation in Tampa, Florida.

One half of the prize was awarded jointly to Caltech's Barry C. Barish, the Ronald and Maxine Linde Professor of Physics, Emeritus and Kip S. Thorne (BS» 62), the Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Emeritus; and the other half was awarded to MIT's Rainer Weiss, professor of physics, emPhysics, Emeritus and Kip S. Thorne (BS» 62), the Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Emeritus; and the other half was awarded to MIT's Rainer Weiss, professor of physics, emPhysics, Emeritus; and the other half was awarded to MIT's Rainer Weiss, professor of physics, emphysics, emeritus.

She was awarded the L'Oreal - UNESCO Women in Science Award as the 2013 Laureate for Europe, and the 2010 Gabor medal and prize of the Institute of Physics, among other awards.

This was 5 years (to the month) after the precursor to the AFM, the scanning tunnelling microscope (STM), had first been successfully tested at IBM's Zurich Research Laboratory by Binnig and the late Heinrich Rohrer, and 7 months before Binnig and Rohrer were awarded a share of the Nobel Prize in Physics for the design of the STM (the prize was shared with Ernst Ruska, the inventor of the electron microscope).

Congratulations to Professor Brian Fulton who has been awarded the Institute of Physics Phillips prize 2016 for his substantial contribution to the work of the Institute of Physics and the UK nuclear physics community over manyPhysics Phillips prize 2016 for his substantial contribution to the work of the Institute of Physics and the UK nuclear physics community over manyPhysics and the UK nuclear physics community over manyphysics community over many years.

Former PPPL Director Ronald Davidson endowed the prize by giving Princeton University a portion of the gift he received as the 1993 recipient of the Award for Excellence in Science, Education and Physics from the Kaul Foundation in Tampa, Florida.

Each prize is $ 3 million and awarded in the fields of Life Sciences (up to five per year), Fundamental Physics (up to one per year) and Mathematics (up to one per year).